“This was something that we were not expecting.”
“We are in what I call the era of celestial cinematography,” said Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, a UC Santa Cruz professor who studies the “violent universe,” in a phone call to SFGATE. While YSE has helped capture hundreds, if not thousands of supernovae, he said, stumbling across a midsize black hole digesting a star was a pleasant surprise.
“We haven't really found many of these smaller mass black holes, these elusive intermediate-mass black holes,” he said.A rendering of an unfortunate star stumbling into a black hole's path.
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