By Aazam
After some preliminary picture processing, MeerKAT watched a target for two hours, and the observation is now available to me in the archives
It is the light from a star's last breath as it is violently torn apart and cannibalized by a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center
These occurrences are known as tidal disruption events, which are among the universe's most vibrant and energetic phenomena
However, few are simple to locate, and even fewer generate the radio waves necessary for comprehension
Currently, astronomers believe that the center of nearly every massive galaxy is a similar black hole
These gravitational monsters have a significant impact on their surroundings and were crucial in the development of their host galaxies
The planets would continue to revolve as they do now even though the Sun would abruptly condense into a black hole, shrinking to just 4 miles (6 kilometers) across. This is because the Sun's mass wouldn't change
When astronomers focus on the Milky Way Galaxy's supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A, they observe more than a dozen stars orbiting the same location
When two of these objects come near together, their gravitational pull causes their orbits to be disturbed and sends them on new, modified trajectories
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who specializes in TDE theory, argues that the star gets stretched along its direction of motion