Black Hole Breakthrough Stars Survival Challenges Our Understanding

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· black holes are among the most mysterious and powerful objects in the universe. These behemoths form when sufficiently massive stars reach the end of their life cycle and … · despite dozens of observations of tidal disruption events, astronomers had never convincingly seen one repeat, so before now there was never reason to believe that the star … Initially thought to be destroyed in 2018, the star … · astronomers believe that supermassive black holes – black holes with masses between hundreds of thousands and billions of times greater than our sun – exist at the … · for the first time, astronomers have confirmed a star’s survival following a tidal disruption event with a supermassive black hole. · in a discovery that challenges a foundation of modern astrophysics, tel aviv university researchers and an international team of scientists have documented the first … · the stars survival despite the presence of a flare goes against the scientific understanding of how stars encounter black holes, showing there is more than meets the eye … · star survives black hole and comes back for more a new discovery upends accepted view of encounters between stars and black holes. · the journey to understanding black holes—or frozen stars—has only just begun, and the next few decades promise to be an exciting time for science and discovery. · this is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. · a team of astronomers has observed a star in a distant galaxy repeatedly interacting with a supermassive black hole.