Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have ...

Astronomers have been left baffled by a cosmic discovery that defies longstanding theories about how stars interact with ...

"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

What can dormant black holes teach astronomers about tidal disruption events (TDEs), which is the bright flash observed when a black hole consumes a star t | Space ...

Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University ...

A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...

Using various telescopes worldwide, an international team of astronomers has observed a tidal disruption event (TDE) known as ...

We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies. If you track the motion of individual stars in the ultra-dense star cluster at the very center of the Milky ...

A new discovery challenges the previously accepted understanding of how stars interact with black holes. While it’s often ...

The first known relativistic tidal disruption event, called Swift J1644+57, was detected in 2011 when NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spotted a strange burst of radiation from the center ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...