Astronomers studying a brief optical flare detected in 2022 say it may have been caused by a black hole ripping apart a star, and the event’s unusual properties point toward a type of black hole that ...
Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics have proposed a new method to measure moderately saturated ...
In the context of physical phenomena, a flare is a transient, intense increase in electromagnetic radiation and often particle emission from an astrophysical object, typically associated with rapid ...