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

"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

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 star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.

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 ...

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

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

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

The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...

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

An international team of astronomers has conducted multiwavelength observations of AT 2023clx—the closest to Earth tidal disruption event (TDE). Results of the observational campaign, published ...

More information: P. Charalampopoulos et al, The fast transient AT 2023clx in the nearby LINER galaxy NGC 3799, as a tidal disruption event of a very low-mass star, arXiv (2024).