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

Most of the black holes we know of are in two categories. They are either supermassive, millions or billions of times the ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

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 ...

The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time. In it, the late theoretical physicist first ...

The Hubble Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory saw an enigmatic intermediate-mass black hole lighting up in X-rays, ...

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

Astronomers may have found a rare intermediate-mass black hole outside galaxy NGC 6099—offering clues about how bigger black holes form.

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv ...

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

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

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.