Tidal Disruption Event in Arp 299
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Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, STScI
Artist\'s conception of Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) in Arp 299. Powerful gravity of supermassive black hole shreds passing star, pulling material into disk rotating around the black hole, and launching jet of particles outward. Artist\'s conception in pullout -- background is Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 299, a pair of colliding galaxies.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=10852
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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- Gallery_nrao18df04_artistzoom
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- E.5.4.6
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- Arp 299 Tidal Disruption Event
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- Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, STScI
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- 1.50E+8
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- 1.50E+8
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- https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=10852
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- Artwork
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- Good
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- NRAO/AUI/NSF
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- https://public.nrao.edu
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- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
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- 520 Edgemont Road
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- Charlottesville
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- Virginia
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- 22903
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- USA
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- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nrao18df04_artistzoom.jpg
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- 2018-06-15T09:22:39-04:00
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- 1.1
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