A new data-handling method found this Sun-like star being consumed by a 200,000 solar mass supermassive black hole (SMBH.)
Astronomers think that QPEs are white dwarfs interacting with low-mass central black holes. PNTs are much longer outbursts in both duration and recurrence period, and astronomers think they’re from main-sequence stars interacting with a black hole and emitting significant optical light. But Swift J0230 bridges the gap between the two. It’s likely a main sequence star orbiting a modest-mass black hole.
J0230 wasn’t easy to spot. The astronomers found it with a new data-handling technique involving an automated search that Evans developed. It’s called theEach time the Swift Observatory monitors a section of the sky, it downloads the data. Then the Swift X-ray Transient Detector processes the data and compares it to previous Swift X-ray observations of the same region looking for changes.
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