It was this radiation burst, called a tidal disruption event TDE, that allowed the researchers to identify the black hole. The TDE called AT2024tvd was notable for a particularly unusual reason: whilst most enormous supermassive black holes are located in the very center of a galaxy, this one was a wandering rogue. “The classic location where you expect massive black holes to be in a galaxy is in the center, like our Sag A* at the center of the Milky Way,” explained lead researcher...
