The developments in the technology and methodology behind the identification of black holes continue as paper published on the 15th of July, headed by Tomer Shenar, outlines the identification of a dormant black hole, without an acc...
In late May, a collaborative study, led by Kailash Suhu, was published claiming that they had managed to identify the first ever isolated black hole, identified by shorthand as OB11046.
The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), has been a remarkably notable structure this year in astronomy.
In September 2019, the closest ever tidal disruption event (TDE), classified as AT2019qiz, was observed at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.