AT2024tvd: Supermassive Black Hole Identified
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A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole

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A system set up to identify objects that suddenly brighten suddenly found something unusual in the northern sky in 2024 .
The object, now called AT2024tvd, was identified by the Zwicky Transient Facility .
It's the first tidal disruption event to identify a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy.
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