A star orbiting a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy was ripped apart in a tidal disruption event, the furthest ever observed By Jonathan O’Callaghan 30 November 2022 ...

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The killer black hole is located about 300 million light-years from Earth, in the ESO 583-G004 galaxy, NASA said. It’s estimated such star shredding events happen only a couple of times “every ...

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This process would shrink its orbit, resulting in QPEs happening increasingly faster, until the star is either ripped apart by the black hole's gravitational tidal forces, or otherwise merges with it.

The killer black hole is located about 300 million light-years from Earth, in the ESO 583-G004 galaxy, NASA said. It’s estimated such star shredding events happen only a couple of times “every ...

This process would shrink its orbit, resulting in QPEs happening increasingly faster, until the star is either ripped apart by the black hole's gravitational tidal forces, or otherwise merges with it.