Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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