Astronomers have observed with unprecedented precision a massive star in the midst of cosmic feasting. This discovery offers ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

Black holes are one of our Universe’s greatest mysteries. What are they made of? What happens after they gobble something up?

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has ...

Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

In a surprising cosmic event, galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, has dramatically lit up after ...

Some of this glowing matter envelops the black hole in a whirling region called an accretion disk. Even the matter that starts falling into a black hole isn't necessarily there to stay.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the hypothetical use of highly energetic events as a way to produce "gravitational-wave ...

and reveal ionized outflows associated with sup er-Eddington accretion. Our analysis of XMM-Newton X-ray observations of the TDE AT2021ehb, around 300 days post-disruption, reveals a soft spectrum and ...

The distinct line profile can be well-modeled by a low eccentricity (e 0.1) accretion disk extending out to similar to 100 R-p and a Gaussian component originating from non-disk clouds, though a ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

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