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Shredded Star Exposes Rogue Supermassive Black Hole Far From Galaxy's Core

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Shredded Star Exposes Rogue Supermassive Black Hole Far From Galaxy's Core

Here is what the page “Shredded Star Exposes Rogue Supermassive Black Hole Far From Galaxy's Core” contains. Astronomers have identified a tidal disruption event, TDE 2023mfm, in which a star was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole located more than 1,000 parsecs from the center of its host galaxy. The event was first spotted by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and subsequently observed with a battery of major instruments, including the Keck Observatory, Lick Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Swift, Chandra, XMM-Newton, and the Very Large Array.

The discovery, detailed in a paper posted to arXiv on September 28, marks one of the most distant black hole encounters from a galactic nucleus ever recorded. Such 'wandering' black holes are thought to form through galaxy mergers or gravitational recoil, and this event provides a rare chance to study their properties. The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.

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