{"id":18730,"date":"2026-07-28T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=18730"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:07:15","slug":"nasas-swift-observes-wandering-black-hole-that-lights-up-the-edge-of-a-distant-galaxy-by-tearing-a-star-to-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=18730","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Swift Observes Wandering Black Hole That Lights Up the Edge of a Distant Galaxy by Tearing a Star to Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/28143114\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Swift Wandering Black Hole Shredding Star\" width=\"960\" height=\"961\"\/><br \/>Far out on the outskirts of a galaxy 750 million light-years away, something invisible finally gave itself away. In November 2025, a sudden brilliant flare appeared more than 30,000 light-years from the galaxy\u2019s center, a place where almost no one expected to find a supermassive black hole.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-251934\"\/><br \/><iframe title=\"Supermassive Black Hole Shredding Star\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ICXsCvlsEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe title=\"Supermassive Black Hole Shredding Star\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ICXsCvlsEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/>\nThat flare erupted from a star that had strayed too close to a black hole weighing a million times our sun. Gravity strained it to breaking point. The hot debris went spiraling in with a temperature of around 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and for a couple of months, the shine from it outshone the whole host galaxy in ultraviolet light, beating over the light of ten billion suns combined.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aawp\">\n<div class=\"aawp-product aawp-product--horizontal\" data-aawp-product-asin=\"B0CRWGX5NH\" data-aawp-product-id=\"245062\" data-aawp-tracking-id=\"tec02e-20\" data-aawp-product-title=\"LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System - DIY Rocket Model Building Set for Adults Ages 18+ - Gifts for Birthdays - Unique Bedroom Decoration for Space &amp; NASA Lovers - 10341\">\n<div class=\"aawp-product__thumb\">\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aawp-product__image\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51wSP6c2joL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System - DIY Rocket Model Building Set for Adults, Ages 18+ - Gifts...\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"aawp-product__content\">\n<p>            LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System &#8211; DIY Rocket Model Building Set for Adults, Ages 18+ &#8211; Gifts&#8230;        <\/p>\n<div class=\"aawp-product__description\">\n<ul>\n<li>NASA rocket model kit \u2013 Launch into a creative project with the LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System model building project for adult space&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s in the box? \u2013 This creative building set includes everything you need to craft a multistage rocket with 2 solid-fuel boosters, an Orion&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Features and Functions \u2013 This NASA-themed rocket model features retractable launch tower umbilicals, rocket support and crew bridge, detachable&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAstronomers refer to these types of star-stripping episodes as tidal disruptions. The majority of the ones they\u2019ve detected occurred exactly at the heart of galaxies, where the largest black holes tend to reside, but up until 2024, every confirmed occurrence we have on record was centered around those main centers. This one, well, it\u2019s as if it simply broke the rules. This time, the black hole is located far enough away that the surrounding area of sky appears to be nearly starless. It\u2019s like a cosmic orphan, lacking the typical galaxy\u2019s central hub to hang out with.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Palomar Observatory\u2019s Zwicky Transient Facility were the first to notice the flare while monitoring the northern sky. Every night, they look over approximately 500,000 distinct flashes, hoping to catch something unusual. A new AI software that they had developed combed through the data and identified this one as resembling a tidal disruption event, despite its location in the middle of nowhere. Then, follow-up spectra from Chile\u2019s Southern Astrophysical Research telescope corroborated the star-tide-shredding signature, making everything even clearer. NASA\u2019s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory put it through the wringer, and the temperature and ultraviolet brightness came out as expected.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/28143107\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star.gif\" alt=\"NASA Swift Wandering Black Hole Shredding Star\" width=\"770\" height=\"770\"\/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/28143057\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star-2.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Swift Wandering Black Hole Shredding Star\" width=\"1280\" height=\"167\"\/><br \/>How a black hole this massive wound up so far away from home is beyond comprehension, but one hypothesis that appears to be the most likely is that a few galaxies decided to collide and join in the distant past. Their black holes got into a war for dominance and eventually threw the smaller one out of the main center. Another possibility is that a small dwarf galaxy is still on the verge of being eaten up by the larger system, and one of its stars has gotten too close to its central black hole. at any case, the black hole we observe today began at the heart of another galaxy and is presently traveling around its current location.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Stein of the University of Maryland and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center led the team that published the discovery. \u201cWe were looking for these star-shredding events as a way to find otherwise invisible supermassive black holes wandering away from the galactic cores where they usually reside,\u201d he said. \u201cWith this discovery, which is one of just a couple that have been confirmed so far, we\u2019ve validated a new technique and can use it to hunt for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> NASA&#8217;s Swift Observes Wandering Black Hole That Lights Up the Edge of a Distant Galaxy by Tearing a Star to Pieces<br \/>\n<br \/>#NASAs #Swift #Observes #Wandering #Black #Hole #Lights #Edge #Distant #Galaxy #Tearing #Star #Pieces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far out on the outskirts of a galaxy 750 million light-years away, something invisible finally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1519,3355,1132,404,5869,7099,3413,12378,4605,541,7322,10067,12379],"class_list":["post-18730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-black","tag-distant","tag-edge","tag-galaxy","tag-hole","tag-lights","tag-nasas","tag-observes","tag-pieces","tag-star","tag-swift","tag-tearing","tag-wandering"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star.jpg",960,961,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star-768x769.jpg",640,641,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star.jpg",640,641,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star.jpg",960,961,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star.jpg",960,961,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star.jpg",960,961,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nasa-swift-wandering-black-hole-shredding-star-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}