High-energy neutrinos may come from black holes ripping apart stars
Evidence builds that tidal disruption events send the subatomic particles zipping through space
![illustration of a tidal disruption event](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/032822_ec_neutrino_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
In a tidal disruption event, a supermassive black hole shreds a star that ventures too close (illustrated). Such events may also spit out high-energy neutrinos.
C. Carreau/ESA