Astronomers at UC Berkeley discovered a massive black hole actively devouring a star outside of a galaxy’s central core — a ...

Tidal disruption events occur when a black hole consumes a hapless star, ripping it apart an swallowing it in a powerful burst of radiation. The newly discovered supermassive black hole, which is ...

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...

This is really interesting. Supermassive black holes are usually found sitting in the centers of galaxies – the gravitational hub around which the entire kit and kaboodle revolves. AT2024tvd's host ...

In a cosmic first, astronomers observed a supermassive black hole consuming a star. This happened outside the core of its ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a second massive black hole within another galaxy, a finding that supports the theory ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...

A wandering black hole rips a star to shreds before swallowing it in a spectacular burst of radiation. The paper published in ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the first direct evidence of a wandering supermassive black ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — offering for the first time ...