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

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

These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

An international team of astronomers has conducted multiwavelength observations of AT 2023clx—the closest to Earth tidal disruption event (TDE). Results of the observational campaign, published ...

The team, led by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Racah Institute of Physics, retold the entire story of this so-called tidal disruption event (TDE) for the first time and saw ...

More information: P. Charalampopoulos et al, The fast transient AT 2023clx in the nearby LINER galaxy NGC 3799, as a tidal disruption event of a very low-mass star, arXiv (2024).