<ul><li>Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a black hole devouring a star, creating a tidal disruption event (TDE) named AT2024tvd.</li><li>The black hole, located 2,600 light years away, was a wandering rogue unlike most supermassive black holes usually found in the center of galaxies.</li><li>The researchers used Hubble, NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the NRAO Very Large Array telescope to observe the TDE and study the black hole's behavior.</li><li>The galaxy where this event occurred contains two supermassive black holes, suggesting a previous merger of smaller galaxies, and theorizing a potential future merger of the two black holes.</li></ul>

Hubble observes a rogue black hole devouring a star

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