Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star
NASA's Swift Observatory detected a rare supermassive black hole consuming a star in the outskirts of a distant galaxy. This discovery validates a new technique for identifying wandering black holes using artificial intelligence.
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has observed a rare supermassive black hole far from the center of a distant galaxy as it tore apart and consumed a star. Astronomers describe it as an apparent "orphan" because it sits unusually far from the galactic core, where supermassive black holes are normally found. No previous event of this kind had been detected at such a great distance from a galaxy's center.
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