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

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

The Blob endured for two years, throttling ecosystems as it killed off marine species and disrupted food webs. Its effects ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

The object, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, first appeared in 2009. Chandra caught the bright X-ray flash near the galaxy’s outskirts.

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

Astronomers have made a series of first-of-their-kind observations that uncover the dusty remains of stars ripped apart by ...

A recent collaboration between NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory has resulted in the discovery of a ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...