Astronomers Spot Black Hole Devouring Star on the Other Side of the Universe
It's 8.5 billion light years away, so we don't exactly have a front-row seat, but we did catch the start ...
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It's 8.5 billion light years away, so we don't exactly have a front-row seat, but we did catch the start ...
The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds.
A mysterious flash detected by astronomers at the Zwicky Transient Facility has been identified as a beam of matter extending out a black hole as it devours a star.
"We found that the jet speed is 99.99% the speed of light," says researcher