A possible intermediate-mass black hole discovered eating a star
An article published in the journal “Nature Astronomy” reports a study of a so-called tidal disruption event, the destruction of a star by a black hole, in this case, an intermediate-mass black hole candidate. A team of researchers cataloged the event as AT 2020neh and studied it using the Hubble Space Telescope after its discovery, which happened thanks to the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), a survey conducted using the Pan-STARRS telescopes. Intermediate-mass black holes are rare, at least as far as we know today, so each candidate discovered can offer new information, including on the possibility that they are precursors of supermassive black holes.
