A star was torn apart about 30,000 light-years out from its galaxy’s core, and astronomers cannot yet say whether the black hole that did it was flung there or is the last dense trace of a swallowed dwarf galaxy

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The flare is the first tidal disruption event an optical sky survey has caught in the outskirts of a galaxy rather than at its center. What kind of black hole made it remains an open question with two live answers. The post A star was torn apart about 30,000 light-years out from its galaxy’s core, and astronomers cannot yet say whether the black hole that did it was flung there or is the last dense trace of a swallowed dwarf galaxy appeared first on Space Daily .