12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... they swallow up a star that has strayed too close. The destruction of a star in this way is referred to as a tidal disruption event (TDE) and it occurs when thin streams of material from the shredded star – the spaghettification part – falls back...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
... an off-axis short-duration Gamma-ray Burst (GRB), or a highly beamed Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). TDE’s occur when when a star passes so close to a black hole that it experiences tidal forces which exceed its self-gravity and essentially the star...
20 September 2017
A new way to 'weigh' extragalactic black holes
... to be emitted. In the case of an unlucky star that strays to close to the devouring black hole, the process is known as a tidal disruption event (TDE). As gravity rips the star apart, some of the star’s material is flung out from the black hole...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... a tidal disruption and not another type of outburst, like from the centre of a galaxy or a supernova." Did the light tell the team anything else about the event? It was once thought that all TDEs would look the same...
