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

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

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, revealing a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...

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 hot ...

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 ...

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

This event is the first time we have ever observed an 'offset TDE', which may help us discover more 'wandering' black holes.

A black hole that can hold 1 million suns has baffled scientists. It resides next to another black hole that can hold 100 million suns. Science & Tech Trending ...

Located around 600 million light-years from Earth, the black hole sat quietly in the dark space between stars.

In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new ...