A Middleweight Black Hole Exposed by a Torn Star ⚡ экспресс
Original: "A Tidal Disruption Event from an Intermediate-mass Black Hole Revealed by Comprehensive Multi-wavelength Observations"
Astronomers caught a prolonged flare from a star torn apart by a medium-sized black hole in a dwarf galaxy.
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A star got too close to an invisible black hole in a dwarf galaxy and was torn apart. The flare lasted for years and pointed to the "missing link"—a medium-sized black hole. This will help us understand how supermassive monsters grow.
🎯 Intermediate-mass black holes could have been the "seeds" from which supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies grew.
🎬 In the movie "Interstellar," the characters dive into a wormhole, but if their ship had gotten too close to a black hole, it would have met the same fate: tidal forces would have stretched and torn it into cosmic spaghetti.