Murderous Black Hole Goes on Rampage, Leaves Path of Wrecked Stars in Its Wake

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Murderous ****** ***** Goes on Rampage, Leaves Path of Wrecked Stars in Its Wake

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New NASA data shows a supermassive ****** ***** going on a chaotic ******** spree, destroying one star before pelting another with its ***** body. Metal!

The findings, which were

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shed light on a phenomenon known as a tidal disruption event (TDE).

In short, these events are gory celestial instances in which a star gets too close to a ****** ***** and is shredded to pieces by its gravity. The scientists’ research links TDEs to another observed cosmic mystery: quasi-periodic eruptions (QPE), a more recently discovered class of bright X-ray pulses that flash from the centers of galaxies around ****** holes.

“There had been feverish speculation that these phenomena were connected, and now we’ve discovered the proof that they are,” said study coauthor Dheeraj Pasham, an Einstein fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a

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. “It’s like getting a cosmic two-for-one in terms of solving mysteries.”

Though the cosmic ****** itself is nothing short of violent, an

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created by NASA based on the data collected from various telescopes is a mesmerizing sight to behold.

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Using data taken from

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including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the still-kicking Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to determine that a TDE called AT2019qiz, discovered back in 2019, left behind a disk of material.

According to the study, that disk continued to expand over the next few years, until it eventually caught up with another object in the supermassive ****** *****’s orbit. (This object is likely another star, though it’s possibly a smaller ****** *****.)

Now, every 48 hours or so when the disk material intersects with this second object, a flash of X-ray gas appears — leading scientists to believe that QPEs arise as an eventual result of TDEs, an intriguing link in our still-murky understanding of this violent cosmic chain of events.

It also means that this second cosmic body is probably being mercilessly pummelled to ****** with the original star’s body as we speak.

Lead study author and Queen’s University, Belfast physicist Matt Nicholl likened the brutal incident to a “diver repeatedly going into a pool and creating a splash every time she enters the water.”

“The star in this comparison is like the diver and the disk is the pool, and each time the star strikes the surface it creates a huge ‘splash’ of gas and X-rays,” Nicholl

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. “As the star orbits around the ****** *****, it does this over and over again.”

Violent as the incident is, the new research is a powerful reminder of the awesome power held by supermassive ****** holes.

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