A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole
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Published in Nature · View the paper (DOI)
Astronomers have detected the most distant black hole swallowing a star, with the event occurring one-third of its current age. The discovery was made using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and provides new insights into these extreme events.
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