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

According to ScienceDaily, astronomers may have just witnessed one of the universe's rarest events: an intermediate-mass black hole devouring a white dwarf star. The Einstein Probe space telescope caught the explosion in its earliest moments, revealing an unusual pattern of intense X-ray flashes unlike any typical gamma-ray burst. This marks the long-sought confirmation of this dramatic stellar destruction.

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