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

In 1992, NASA's Galileo spacecraft took detailed pictures of the Moon while on its way to Jupiter. It captured a colorful view near the Moon's north pole using 18 green-filter images. The image shows ...

The 1964 event, considered the worst tsunami disaster recorded in the United States, began with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake in ...

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has participated in a significant training exercise designed to simulate the full operation of Belfast's flood defences in the event of a tidal surge. The exercise ...

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 ...

A new paper published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters warns of an emerging global threat posed by salt contamination of water supplies in tidal rivers worldwide. The paper, co-authored ...

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

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.