Astronomers Find Rare Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Apart a Star

Illustration of a bright star stretched into a long thin stream of gas as it is pulled into a dark accretion disc around a

Astronomers discovered a rare supermassive black hole located about 30,000 light-years from the center of its host galaxy, WISEA J014656.04-152214.7, after it tore apart a passing star. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility in November 2025 using an artificial intelligence algorithm, the discovery challenges long-held assumptions about where heavy black holes reside. Nearly every galaxy … Read more