Chandra Digest, August 14, AT2018fyk

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** AT2018fyk: NASA Telescopes Work Out Black Hole's Snack Schedule

A "tidal disruption event" located about 860 million light-years from Earth.

Read the article and rate the image at:

https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/bhsnack/

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** Chandra Press: NASA Telescopes Work Out Black Hole's Snack Schedule

Astronomers have correctly forecast when a giant black hole finished its last meal — and predict when its next snack will occur.

https://chandra.si.edu/press/24_releases/press_081424.html

** Chandra Press: Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision

Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal matter.

https://chandra.si.edu/press/24_releases/press_072924.html

**Chandra Blog:  NASA Telescopes Work Out Black Hole's Snack Schedule

By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers have made important headway in understanding how — and when — a supermassive black hole obtains and then consumes material.

https://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/898

**Chandra Blog: CfA Celebrates Chandra’s 25th Anniversary

Twenty-five years ago, the Space Shuttle Columbia launched into space carrying the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

https://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/897