Astronomers Catch a Black Hole Destroying a Nearby Star – Launching Powerful Relativistic Beams of Matter – SciTechDaily
A star is being consumed by a nearby supermassive black hole. Astronomers call this a tidal disruption event (TDE). What makes this TDE a very rare TDE is that as the black hole rips apart the star, two jets of material moving with almost the speed of light are launched in opposite directions producing light in all wavelengths. Such jetted-TDEs are extremely rare and AT2022cmc, depicted here is the first one discovered with an optical telescope. Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology
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