Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant, waking briefly to feast ...

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

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

The Hubble Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory saw an enigmatic intermediate-mass black hole lighting up in X-rays, ...

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

WATCH the shocking moment a rare black whole gobbles up a star and causes an earth-shattering explosion in a stunning new ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

In a tidal disruption event, an unfortunate star passes too close to a dormant supermassive black hole and gets torn apart by tidal forces, feeding the black hole for a short time. Astronomers use ...

As a result, the observed flare can take 100 times longer to peak than typically expected, so these sources may not be identified as tidal disruption events. Furthermore, for cases where the black ...