Using NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton space telescopes, astronomers from the Radboud University in the Netherlands and elsewhere have conducted X-ray observations of a tidal disruption event designated 3XMM J150052.0+015452, or J150052 for short. The results show that J150052 was triggered by a rapidly spinning intermediate-mass black hole. The finding was detailed in a paper published November 30 on arXiv.org.
