SMRTR Science & EngineeringMay 9, 2025Ars Technica

A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole

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A star's destruction by a supermassive black hole far from its galaxy's center, named AT2024tvd, marks the first visible-wavelength detection of such an event and suggests multiple wandering black holes exist in large galaxies.

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