Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

NASA's Hubble captured a rare event 600 million light-years away: a black hole devouring a star in a Tidal Disruption Event ...