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Six panel illustration of Black Hole TDE AT2024tvd
This six-panel illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole shows the following:
1) A supermassive black hole is adrift inside a galaxy, its presence only detectable by gravitational lensing;
2) A wayward star gets swept up in the black hole's intense gravitational pull;
3) The star is stretched or "spaghettified" by gravitational tidal effects;
4) The star's remnants form a disk around the black hole;
5) There is a period of black hole accretion, pouring out radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to radio wavelengths; and 6) The host galaxy, seen from afar, contains a bright flash of energy that is offset from the galaxy's nucleus, where an even more massive black hole dwells.
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/six-panel-illustration-of-black-hole-tde-at2024tvd/
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