A Star-Eating Black Hole Has Been Spotted!

What we know about black holes, one of the most mysterious and interesting objects in the universe, is increasing day by day. Now, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, a black hole detects a black hole eating a star. The research findings have been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Revealing an extremely rare event, this moment allows us to see a black hole swallow a star this close for the first time.

The event took place in the galaxy NGC 7392, 137 million light-years away.

The glow detected in the galaxy NGC 7392 in 2015 (upper left), Observations from the same galaxy in 2010-2011 (upper right), lower left revealing the detected TDE event by revealing the difference between the first two images. The image in the lower right is the image of the galaxy.

Every 10,000 years, the center of a galaxy lights up when a supermassive black hole shatters a nearby star. “tidal disruption event”, or TDE for short, in this astronomical phenomenon, as the black hole pulls in stellar material, it ejects a large amount of radiation, resulting in massive flashes.

This event, detected by MIT researchers, shows a TDE much closer than anything we’ve seen so far. The event, called WTP14adbjsh, is 137 million light-years away. NGC 7392 galaxy and allows us to see the eerie glow of a black hole swallowing a star.

It also represents a first by being caught in an unusual light. WTP14adbjsh is pretty bright instead of optical or X-ray an infrared glow was observed. This suggests that there may be tidal disruption events that we missed because we weren’t looking in the right place.

Christos Panagiotou, an MIT astrophysicist, said:Finding this close TDE is statistically significant for such events not seen by conventional methods. you can be manyI reveal” he says, adding that if we want to find the full picture of black holes and their host galaxies, we should try to find them in infrared.