Astronomers saw a black hole ripping a star apart and eating it, because of the stellar debris flowing directly into the Earth, and since the waves were directed to the Earth, the violent destruction of the stars and this black hole, astronomers call it tidal waves. perturbation event (TDE), was visible in visible light.
According to “Space”, TDE occurs when stars move close to black holes, as the black hole crushes the star with the force of gravity. radiate from its trees..
“We’ve only seen a few of these TDEs and they are still amazing and mysterious,” said Niall Tanvir, an astronomer at the University of Leicester in the UK and one of the authors of the new study. words.
Astronomers are constantly looking at these extreme events to understand how the jets form and why TDEs form.
The discovery of TDE, known as AT2022cmc, came when the Survey Telescope (ZTF) in California sent a warning of an unusual source of visible light from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of northern Chile.
AT2022cmc encounters for the first time a gamma ray burst (GRB), the most powerful source of electromagnetic radiation in the known universe, the source of which is unknown.
The opportunity to witness this rare and mysterious burst of light led astronomers to train several telescopes on AT2022cmc, including the VLT, which studied the event using the X-shooter telescope.
It was observed by 21 AT2022cmc telescopes of varying brightness, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Neutron Star Explorer Interior Installer (NICER) instrument on the International Space Station.
The amount of data revealed two interesting facts: First, the source of AT2022cmc was very far from Earth and the light began its journey when the 13.8-billion-year-old universe was one-third of its current age. A type of gamma ray burst.
