A supermassive black hole roughly 660 million light-years from Earth has been caught firing off a blast of energy that dwarfs ...

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An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping ...

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 that passes too close to it? This is what a ...

A strange gamma-ray explosion that fired off repeated bursts from the same patch of sky over roughly seven hours has now been traced to its likely cause: a black hole ripping apart a star that strayed ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole's stellar ...

Using various telescopes worldwide, an international team of astronomers has observed a tidal disruption event (TDE) known as AT2018hyz, which allowed them to witness a rapid brightening of this ...

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole and is gravitationally torn apart by tidal forces. The resulting stellar debris forms an accretion disc ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole’s stellar feast.

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant, waking briefly to feast on a passing star. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, ...