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MIT astronomers observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The findings may shed light on how the earliest supermassive black holes became so massive despite having a relatively short amount of cosmic time in which to grow.
The detections more than double the number of known tidal disruption events in the nearby universe.
<p style="text-align:start">MIT scientists have identified 18 new tidal disruption events (TDEs) — extreme instances when a nearby star is tidally drawn into a black hole and ripped to shreds. The detections more than double the number of known TDEs in the nearby universe.</p>
MIT study reveals: Star-shredding black holes fill the sky, easily spotted with proper observation.
MIT professor emeritus of physics George Whipple Clark, an astrophysicist who was a leader in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, has died at age 94.