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09May

A Star has Been Obliterated by a Roaming Supermassive Black hole

Credit: PixabayIn 2024, a system designed to detect sudden brightening events discovered something strange. However, the automated system meant to identify the object couldn't determine what it was observing. Nearly a year later, we know it was the first tidal disruption event—where a star is torn apart by a supermassive black hole—seen in visible...

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22Feb

Is the Brightest Entity in the Cosmos a Supermassive Black Hole?

An artist's impression of the brightest object ever discovered – a quasar that shines with the light of 500 trillion Suns – which is also the fastest growing black hole, eating the equivalent of a Sun a dayESO/M. KornmesserOne might expect that locating the brightest object in the observable universe would be straightforward, but...

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