May 11, 2024
This Black Hole Is Really Taking Its Time Eating a Poor Star
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: cosmology
On November 14, 2014, a telescope spotted a burst of light in a galaxy 570 million light-years away. It was thought to be a supernova, an arrestingly bright explosion that marks a star’s death. This week, astronomers revealed that the burst was not a supernova after all, but rather a black hole having dinner—one of…