When a start gets close to a black hole it can get ripped apart by the black hole's tidal forces. Astronomers refer to such events as "tidal disruption events".
Tiara Hung (UMD, USA)
Tiara Hung is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park
- Internship Start Date 1 May 2017
- Internship End Date 1 September 2017
- Project Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) and AGN variability studies with ZTF
- Host Collaborators Prof. Mansi Kasliwal
- Caltech, USA
