Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Discovered 600 Million Light-Years Away

This supermassive black hole was discovered thanks to the newly-identified tidal disruption event AT2024tvd, an astronomical phenomenon in which a star passes too close to a black hole and the extreme gravitational pull from the black hole shreds the star into thin streams of material. The post Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Discovered 600 Million Light-Years Away appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

May 8, 2025 - 14:30
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Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Discovered 600 Million Light-Years Away
The tidal disruption event AT2024tvd. Image credit: NASA / CXC / University of California, Berkeley / Yao et al. / ESA / STScI / HST / J. DePasquale.

This supermassive black hole was discovered thanks to the newly-identified tidal disruption event AT2024tvd, an astronomical phenomenon in which a star passes too close to a black hole and the extreme gravitational pull from the black hole shreds the star into thin streams of material.

The post Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Discovered 600 Million Light-Years Away appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

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