Astronomers spot a black hole tearing apart a star 3,500 light-years off-center - Interesting Engineering
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Can a dying star reveal the location of a black hole that has otherwise gone unnoticed? Turns out, it can.
Astronomers have now traced a stellar destruction event to a massive black hole about 3,500 light-years from the center of its host galaxy. This discovery offers a rare look at a so-called wandering black hole and raises a further question: how did it end up so far from home?
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