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 ...

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

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

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

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed a star’s survival following a tidal disruption event with a supermassive black ...

In an exciting breakthrough in the study of tidal disruption events (TDEs), astronomers have captured the intense and rapid brightening of AT2018hyz, a TDE located 665 million light-years away. This ...

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 ...

We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies. If you track the motion of individual stars in the ultra-dense star cluster at the very center of the Milky ...

Tidal Disruption Event: An astronomical occurrence wherein a star is torn apart by the strong tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, leading to debris accretion and transient emission.

An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, in which a star is spaghettified and the remains form an accretion disk around the black hole. Typically, about half the star’s mass is ...