Neutrinos from tidal disruption events: when black holes shred stars
A tidal disruption event happens when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole and gets pulled apart. The aftermath blazes in light for months — and, in a small but growing number of cases, IceCube has caught neutrinos coincident in time and direction with the optical flare. This is one of the freshest chapters in neutrino astronomy.