Tidal disruption events and what they can reveal about black holes in distant galaxies

Tidal disruption events and what they can reveal about black holes in distant galaxies

Space Daily

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Syracuse NY (SPX) Jan 12, 2024

At the center of most large galaxies lives a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The Milky Way has Sagittarius A*, a mostly dormant SMBH whose mass is around 4.3 million times that of the sun. But if you look deeper into the universe, there are vastly larger SMBHs with masses that can reach up to tens of billions of times the mass of our sun. Black holes grow in mass by gravitationally consumi

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