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Jillian C. Rastinejad

1 articles · 29 co-authors · latest: 2026-02-10

Invisible Black Hole Shreds Star in a Galactic Suburb

Normally, black holes rip stars apart in the centers of galaxies. A new discovery shows that some black holes lurk in the outskirts. Astronomers spotted a flare tens of thousands of light-years from the center of a large galaxy. A computer algorithm trained on similar events helped identify it. Soon
arXiv:2602.10180 · 2026-02-10