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

Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers ...

There is much we don't know about black holes, like what matter looks like inside their event horizons. As he launches a North American stadium tour and his "Hurry Up Tomorrow" film, Abel Tesfaye ...

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of ...

Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...

In the early universe, primordial black holes could acquire a "dark charge," giving them an unnaturally long lifetime, new research suggests. This makes them an interesting candidate for dark matter.

A traveling black hole stalking the cosmos for stellar prey recently revealed itself by shredding a star in a radioactive ...