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Astronomers have identified a tidal disruption event, TDE 2023mfm, in which a star is being ripped apart by a massive black hole located more than 1,000 parsecs from its galaxy’s center. The flare was first spotted by the Zwicky Transient Facility and subsequently observed with a suite of instruments—including Keck, Lick, Hubble, Swift, Chandra, XMM‑Newton and the VLA—providing multiwavelength coverage. The discovery paper was posted to arXiv on Sept. 28. This finding adds to a growing sample of “wandering” black holes that reside far from galactic nuclei, likely displaced by mechanisms such as gravitational‑wave recoil or slingshot ejection during galaxy mergers.

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