Animation of a black hole eating a star.

Everyday new activities are found in space. Recently, India’s first robotic optical research telescope captured surprising activity. It has the glow emanating from the collision of a dying star and a black hole. It is also called optical flare in English. This study has been published in the journal Nature.

black hole ate the star
Astrophysicist Varun Bhalerao of IIT Bombay told that when the black hole and the star came face to face, then the star was in the same stage of dying. In this collision, the gravitational force of the black hole tore the star to pieces. After this, the pieces of the star are scattered around the black hole and start rotating around it like a disk. Such an event is called Tidal Disruption Event (TDE).

After the event, the fragments of the star began to revolve around the black hole.

Research done by Indian telescope
The name of the telescope is Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH). It has been built jointly by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. It is situated on the Saraswati mountain in Ladakh at an altitude of 4,500 meters above sea level. Its main focus is time-domain astronomy. This means that it will study the explosions in the universe and their causes.

the glow was fading fast
This event in space was named AT2022cmc. According to scientists, it was rapidly disappearing after shining suddenly. That’s why scientists thought it necessary to look into it. The event occurred 8.5 billion light-years away from us. Astronomers think that AT2022cmc was at the center of a galaxy. It is expected that this galaxy can be detected in the future with the help of Hubble Telescope or James Webb Space Telescope. Also, research will be done for more information about black holes.