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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

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

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

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

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.