Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black hole tears apart a star, revealing what appears to be the off-axis afterglow of a powerful jet. A team of Chinese astronomers using the Very Large Array (NSF VLA) recently detected a rare transient event taking place in a dwarf galaxy 3.4 billion light-years from Earth. The event, known as AT2019ijn, consisted of an intermediate-mass black hole... [4507 chars]
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