Tidal Disruptor Event J150052 Was Caused by Rapidly Rotating Intermediate-Mass Black Hole, Study Finds
Long-term light curve of J150052 from 2008. Credit: Cao et al, 2022 Using NASA’s Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescopes, astronomers from Radboud University in the Netherlands and elsewhere made X-ray observations of a tidal disturbance event designated 3XMM J150052.0+015452, or J150052 for short. The results show that J150052 was triggered by a rapidly rotating …
