Supermassive Black Hole Flashed Twice in a Rare Event, Scientists Explain the Reason https://ift.tt/J3x4kSM Supermassive Black Hole Flashed Twice in a Rare Event, Scientists Explain the Reason Astronomers recently observed a rare cosmic event where a supermassive black hole, located approximately 408 million light-years away, consumed one star from a binary system while the other narrowly escaped. This unusual phenomenon, known as a double-flash tidal disruption event (TDE), occurred in the galaxy WISEA J122045.05+493304.7. These powerful events, visible from billions of light-y…