Einstein Probe may have caught a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf for the first time
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ScienceDailyEinstein Probe may have caught a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf for the first timesciencedaily.comAstronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass black hole ripping apart a dense white dwarf star and devouring it. The Einstein Probe space telescope caught the explosion in its earliest moments, revealing an unusual sequence of intense X-ray flashes unlike anything seen in a typical gamma-ray burst.
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