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A torn star revealed a black hole wandering 30 light-years from the center of the galaxy

A torn star revealed a black hole wandering 30 light-years from the center of the galaxy

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Tidal disruption event TDE 2025abcr revealed a black hole with an estimated mass of about a million solar masses, far from where supermassive black holes are expected to be found. Artificial intelligence tool tuned to search for events outside galactic centers
An artist's impression of a supermassive black hole tearing apart a giant star, at least 30 times the mass of the Sun. This is how scientists explain what happened around the distant black hole J2245+3743, which in 2018 caused the brightest flare ever measured from a black hole – with a luminous intensity of about 10 trillion suns – detected by the ZTF and Catalina sky surveys.

Webb's first depth field and the brightest flare from a supermassive black hole

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James Webb Space Telescope reveals stunning deep-sky image of thousands of distant galaxies, while Caltech's ZTF sky survey reveals record flare from supermassive black hole that devoured a giant star 10 billion light-years away
After the Big Bang, an interstellar cloud of gas and dust composed of the elements silicon (gray), sulfur (yellow), and argon (purple) remained.

Giant star caught naked, revealing source of silicon and sulfur formation

An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, has identified a new type of supernova that provides a rare glimpse into the depths of stars and reveals sites of production of heavy chemical elements.
An image consisting of three color filters in visible light of the Andromeda galaxy taken with the telescope of the Zwicky facility on Mount Plumer. The image covers 2.9 square degrees - one 16th of the telescope's full field. Andromeda or Messier 31 is the nearest large galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, which is 2.5 million light-years away. Photo credit: ZTF/D. Goldstein/R. Hurt/Caltech

Over 1,100 supernovae and 50 near-Earth objects have been discovered through a new survey

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