Last summer, China's Einstein Probe detected an unusually fast, bright x-ray signal.
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Last summer, China's Einstein Probe detected an unusually fast, bright x-ray signal.
It might have come from an exotic, previously unseen type of cosmic disaster: a white dwarf star being torn apart & consumed by an intermediate-mass black hole.
https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/first-evidence-black-hole-rips-white-dwarf/ #space #science #nature
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Last summer, China's Einstein Probe detected an unusually fast, bright x-ray signal.
It might have come from an exotic, previously unseen type of cosmic disaster: a white dwarf star being torn apart & consumed by an intermediate-mass black hole.
https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/first-evidence-black-hole-rips-white-dwarf/ #space #science #nature
The mystery object was extremely luminous, flared, and then faded within three weeks (graph below). All of that is consistent with a catastrophic encounter between small, dense star & a mysterious in-between black hole, hundreds or thousands of times the mass of the Sun.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25877 #science #astronomy
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The mystery object was extremely luminous, flared, and then faded within three weeks (graph below). All of that is consistent with a catastrophic encounter between small, dense star & a mysterious in-between black hole, hundreds or thousands of times the mass of the Sun.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25877 #science #astronomy
The Einstein Probe is part of a growing effort by China to support ambitious astronomy and astrophysics programs. It was created in collaboration with ESA, CNES, and the Max-Planck Institute, which share in the results.
https://ep.bao.ac.cn/ep/ #science #nature #china #technology
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