Astronomers have witnessed an extremely rare occurrence: the end of a star's life, as it's obliterated by a supermassive black hole. And this particular star's collapse was even more unique, because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of astronomers captured a distant Sun-like star shredded by a supermassive black hole in a 'death by spaghettification'. At ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A supermassive black hole tears up a star in a tidal disruption event, pulling gas away and creating an accretion disk. - Ralf ...

Scientists have spotted a supermassive hole "sucking in" a star around 215 million light-years from Earth, causing it to be "spaghettified." The term spaghettification term describes the bizarre ...

In work that could help scientists understand how matter behaves when it's close to supermassive black holes, a star has been observed while getting sucked into one in what's known as a tidal ...

Astronomers have spotted a rare and radiant pulse of light—the last gasp of a dying star that has been sucked toward the center of a supermassive black hole and shredded into sinuous strings of ...

A supermassive black hole tears up a star in a tidal disruption event, pulling gas away and creating an accretion disk. Credit: Ralf Crawford illustration When a star strays too close to a ...