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 ...

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

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

The latest black hole discovery has been described as "Space Jaws", found 600 million light-years away. NASA says: "There is ...

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 ...

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

NASA's sonification of the supermassive black hole at the center of Centaurus A, a galaxy some 12 million light-years from ...

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

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 ...

The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a ...

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