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 supermassive black hole tears up a star in a tidal disruption event, pulling gas away and creating an accretion disk. - Ralf ...

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 ...

A rare blast of light, emitted by a star as it is sucked in by a supermassive black hole, has been spotted by scientists using telescopes from around the world. The phenomenon, known as a tidal ...

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 ...