Tidal Disruption Event (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

Tidal Disruption Event

Caption

Illustration of a tidal disruption event (TDE).

Credit

Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology

Usage Restrictions

This graphic was created for press releases associated with the AT2022cmc paper, “A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole."

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