Dan Kocevski. of the Relativistic Astrophysics Team, (ST12) co-authored a ground-breaking paper accepted by Nature on the discovery of a relativistic jet created by the tidal disruption of a star passing close to a black hole. The event, named AT 2022cmc, is only the fourth member of this rare class and the first with well-sampled optical data. The paper provides one of the best multi-wavelength datasets of a newborn relativistic jet to date and will be invaluable for testing more sophisticated jet models. Relativistic jets associated with tidal disruption events also have the potential to unveil quiescent stellar mass black holes at cosmological distances and are ideal test beds to understand the radiative mechanisms operating in these types of relativistic outflows.
