Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the ...

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 ...

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the ...

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...

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

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 ...

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

Follow-up observations by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed ... Most large galaxies contain at least one supermassive black hole at their center. Because galaxies frequently collide and merge ...

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, revealing a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far from its galaxy's center. This discovery, aided by Hubble and other ...