Astronomers detect new faint tidal disruption event

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a new tidal disruption event (TDE) as part of All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN). The newfound TDE, designated ASASSN-23bd, turns out to be the least luminous and the lowest redshift TDE known so far. The finding is reported in a paper published January 10 on the pre-print server arXiv.