Sentences with phrase «stellar tidal disruption»
Astronomers have now observed infrared light echoes from these «stellar tidal disruption» events reflected by dust encircling a black hole.
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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.
The short fallback time derived from the light curve requires an ultra-close encounter where the pericentre of the stellar orbit is deep within the tidal disruption radius.