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Astronomers studying a 2023 tidal disruption event around the supermassive black hole Swift J1727.8-1613 found that a substantial fraction of the star’s material is expelled back into space after being drawn in, suggesting black holes can regurgitate matter and that the outflow could rival the amount swallowed, challenging the idea that these cosmic behemoths simply gobble everything.
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has provided new insights into the structures surrounding a newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the binary system Swift J1727.8-1613. Detected during a bright X-ray outburst in 2023, IXPE's observations have helped map the accretion disk and corona, revealing consistent geometry with other black hole systems. This research, published in The Astrophysical Journal and Astronomy & Astrophysics, marks a significant advancement in understanding black hole X-ray binary systems and demonstrates IXPE's crucial role in studying these cosmic phenomena.