article_snippet.sent: The observed amount of X-rays emitted at different energies agrees with expectations for a tidal disruption event.'
article_snippet.sent: a new X-ray source became dimmer during the period of Swift observations.
article_snippet.sent: The rate at which the X-ray brightness dropped agrees with theoretical models of a disruption of a planet by the gravitational tidal forces of a white dwarf.
article_snippet.sent: The observed amount of X-rays emitted at different energies agrees with expectations for a tidal disruption event.
article_snippet.sent: While the case for the tidal disruption of a planet is not iron-clad, the argument for it was strengthened when astronomers used data from the multiple telescopes to help eliminate other possible explanations for the detected X-rays.