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." ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around the galaxy. If they come too close, these objects are gobbled up by the ...

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 ...