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Einstein Probe may have caught a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf for the first time

Science Daily · Jun 26, 2026, 1:05 AM

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Astronomers 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 sequen

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