The star had a rough go of it. Around the time multicellular organisms started evolving on Earth, the black hole at the center of a faraway galaxy devoured a star that got a little too close. Find out more at 🚀 Engineering
The remains of the shredded star glow in far more colors of light than humans can see. Since the first observation in the 1980s, Astronomers have witnessed black holes gobble up about 100 stars. They saw all but two of those stellar feasts — formally known as— by scanning the skies for visible light or for x-rays. The data behind the recent observation came as radio waves, which have much longer wavelengths.
Though astronomers have suspected since the 1980s that TDEs occur, the first one wasn’t spotted with a radio telescope until 2020. The recent sighting of J1533+2727 could be a sign that the floodgates are opening thanks to a deluge of new data. Hannah Dykaar, an astronomer at the University of Toronto and co-author on the paper, said that “[a]n unprecedented amount of radio observations are now becoming available, positioning us to discover many more sources like this one.
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