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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

Tidal Disruption Event: An astronomical occurrence wherein a star is torn apart by the strong tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, leading to debris accretion and transient emission.

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