Scientists say the discovery is one of the most 'extreme' instances of this kind of event they've ever seen.
A NASA illustration shows a tidal disruption event. A huge flare from a supermassive black hole 10 billion light years away is thought to be possibly be caused by a tidal disruption event.can do has greatly expanded in recent years, with discoveries of stars being torn apart and accreting black holes with hugely variable luminosities," Matt Nicholl, a member of the astronomy team from Queen's University Belfast and co-author of the paper, said in a statement.
The astronomers theorize that J221951 and its exceptional brightness may a result of a supermassive black hole rapidly feeding on the material in its vicinity, thanks to its location being consistent with where a nearby redSupermassive black holes are enormous black holes, thought to be at the center of every galaxy: our own Milky Way orbits around aUsually, these supermassive black holes are quite quiet, as a result of not having much material to consume, but let out huge flares of activity...
The first picture of a black hole in the center of far-off galaxy M87 taken by the Event Horizon Telescope. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a supermassive black hole 6.5 billion times the Sun’s mass.
Two theories for how the supermassive black hole began feeding so suddenly and viciously have been suggested by the astronomers. The first involves
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