Rare Sighting of Luminous Jet Spewed by Supermassive Black Hole Astronomers discover a bright optical flare caused by a dying star’s encounter with a supermassive black hole. What happens when a dying star flies too close to a supermassive black hole? Several things happen, according to Unive
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It is still a mystery why some TDEs launch jets while others do not seem to. From their observations, Andreoni and his team concluded that the black holes in AT 2022cmc and other similarly jetted TDEs are likely spinning rapidly so as to power the extremely luminous jets.
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