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

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." ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 first known relativistic tidal disruption event, called Swift J1644+57, was detected in 2011 when NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spotted a strange burst of radiation from the center ...

Supermassive black holes, sitting at the core of galaxies, are known to be active and emit a lot of X-rays. Finding one way ...

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