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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...

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 ...

Strong ocean tides could be driving the growth of huge fractures in Antarctica’s ice shelves, new research suggests.

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 ...

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