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 ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — offering for the first time ...

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 ...

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, revealing a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far ...

What can wandering black holes teach scientists about the formation and evolution of black holes throughout the universe?

After two weaker-field events in the Zurich Classic and the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, most of the best players on the PGA Tour ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

A regular black hole would have the light ring and the outer horizon, but also an inner horizon, which would enclose a core ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

“The bottom line is there’s been no big movement,” Blair Brandt, GOP fundraiser and husband to Margit; he’s also her chief ...

An illustration of a supermassive black hole power AGN at the heart of a distant galaxy | Credit: Robert Lea (created with ...