It's all on the up-and-up from there, though. Lego Talking Sorting Hat features a pressable top that you can push down like a ...

Crafting a list of the best sci-fi movies ever made is no easy task ... The film follows a group of criminals sent into space towards a black hole while taking part in scientific experiments ...

An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

A one million-solar-mass black hole resides outside its host galaxy's centre. In a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie, scientists have captured a hungry black hole that is ripping up and ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event ...

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie ... the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down any wayward star that plummets toward it. The sneaky black hole betrayed ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center—a point, hidden behind the ...

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array ...

Now, about a year later, we know it's the first tidal disruption event—meaning a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole—identified at visual wavelengths. It's also a rather ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the ...

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, caused by a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far from its galaxy's center. This marks the first time a TDE has been ...

On each pass, the star kicks out one Jupiter's worth of mass from the black hole's disk. A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of ...