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Scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a massive star. The event was so powerful that it released energy 400 billion times more than our Sun. Researchers are studying this rare phenomenon to learn more about black holes.
Scientists have discovered a black hole devouring a massive star in a spectacular event. This extreme encounter was observed by astronomers around the world and presented at the AAS conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The star was torn apart as the immense gravity of the black hole pulled it apart, piece by piece.
The lead author of a paper on this discovery is Associate Professor of Astrophysics Daniel Perley from Liverpool John Moores University. He described the event as
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Scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a massive star. The event was so powerful that it released energy 400 billion times more than our Sun. Researchers are studying this rare phenomenon to learn more about black holes.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260814235849.htm
Journal reference:
- Daniel A Perley, Anna Y Q Ho, Zoë McGrath, Michael Camilo, Cassie Sevilla, Ping Chen, Genevieve Schroeder, Taya Govreen-Segal, Aleksandra Bochenek, Yu-Jing Qin, James H Gillanders, Benjamin Amend, Joseph P Anderson, Igor Andreoni, Amar Aryan, Eric C Bellm, Joshua S Bloom, Thomas de Boer, Jonathan Carney, Ilaria Caiazzo, Ken C Chambers, Panos Charalampopoulos, Ting-Wan Chen, Tracy X Chen, Eric R Coughlin, Michael Coughlin, Michel Dennefeld, Georgios Dimitriadis, Christoffer Fremling, Danielle Frostig, Avishay Gal-Yam, Lluís Galbany, Anjashay Gangopadhyay, Melzie Ghendrih, Matthew J Graham, Mariusz Gromadzki, Steven L Groom, Claudia P Gutiérrez, K -Ryan Hinds, Mark E Huber, Cosimo Inserra, Benjamin C Kaiser, Mansi M Kasliwal, Niilo E Koivisto, Chien-Cheng Lin, Chang Liu, Thomas B Lowe, Eugene Magnier, Ashish A Mahabal, Andrew Milligan, Paloma Minguez, Geoffrey Mo, Tomás E Müller-Bravo, Matt Nicholl, Priscila J Pessi, Giuliano Pignata, Josiah Purdum, Nabeel Rehemtulla, R Michael Rich, Anwesha Sahu, Avinash Singh, Stephen J Smartt, Ian A Smith, Jesper Sollerman, Gokul Srinivasaragavan, Shubham Srivastav, Robert D Stein, Steve Schulze, Jack W Tweddle, Richard Wainscoat, Jacob L Wise, Lin Yan, David R Young. AT 2024wpp: an extremely luminous fast ultraviolet transient powered by accretion onto a black hole. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2026; 549 (1) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag678
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