Sentences with phrase «as tidal disruption»

A study detailing the new findings was published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy under the title «The superluminous transient ASASSN - 15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole.»

Such incidents of stellar cannibalism, also known as tidal disruption events or TDEs, previously had been found only in surveys that observed thousands of galaxies at once.

We'd previously seen only a handful of these star - shredding displays, known as tidal disruption events, and only ever their afterglow.

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Using data from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Swift Satellite as well as ESA's XMM - Newton, researchers found evidence of a massive «tidal disruption event» (TDE).

Dozens of these so - called tidal disruption events have been detected since the 1990s, but none that remained bright for nearly as long as this one,» Dacheng Lin, a research scientist at the University of North Hampshire and the lead author of the paper, said in a statement.

When a supermassive black hole does exactly that to a star — sphagettifying the burning ball of gas into shreds and devouring it as it comes too close to the black hole's event horizon — the phenomenon is called a tidal disruption event.

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