Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...

Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...

The latest black hole discovery has been described as "Space Jaws", found 600 million light-years away. NASA says: "There is ...

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of ...

On each pass, the star kicks out one Jupiter's worth of mass from the black hole's disk. A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...

The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a ...

NASA's Hubble captured a rare event 600 million light-years away: a black hole devouring a star in a Tidal Disruption Event ...