A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...

Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the first direct evidence of a wandering supermassive black ...

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the ...

In a scene straight out of science fiction, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a massive black hole ...

The tidal disruption event (TDE) took place 600 million light-years away and was caught by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Located around 600 million light-years from Earth, the black hole sat quietly in the dark space between stars.

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...