"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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

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

A new discovery challenges the previously accepted understanding of how stars interact with black holes. While it’s often said that lightning never strikes the same place twice, black holes seem to ...

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'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv ...

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 ...