NASA gets an unusually close glimpse of a black hole devouring a wandering star
A star getting too close to a massive black hole (MBH) can get disrupted by the tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The first observational evidence for TDEs came from detecting X-ray flares from the centers of quiescent galaxies in 1990-1991. Recently, multiple NASA telescopes observed a massive…
bubmagDecember 21, 2022