"While it’s often said that lightning never strikes the same place twice, black holes seem to defy that rule.
A team of astronomers, led by researchers from Tel Aviv University,
has observed a powerful flare triggered by a star being pulled into a black hole and destroyed. What makes this event remarkable is that a nearly identical flare, named AT 2022dbl, was seen coming from the same region of space just two years earlier.
This marks the first confirmed instance of a star surviving an initial encounter with a supermassive black hole and returning for a second, similar event. The finding challenges long-standing beliefs about tidal disruption events and raises the possibility that these dramatic flares may only be the beginning of a more intricate cosmic process." SciTechDaily
This marks the first confirmed instance of a star surviving an initial encounter with a supermassive black hole and returning for a second, similar event. The finding challenges long-standing beliefs about tidal disruption events and raises the possibility that these dramatic flares may only be the beginning of a more intricate cosmic process." SciTechDaily