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 ...

According to the IXPE's findings, high optical to X-ray polarization ratio indicates that Compton scattering might be the mechanism of X-ray generation. There are two possible and competing ...

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

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 ...

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

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

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

A lab experiment has successfully demonstrated the black hole bomb effect, a theory first proposed more than 50 years ago.

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?

Beyond proving the theory, this result has broader implications. Superradiance — the process of extracting energy from spin — ...

With the Raptor engine, SpaceX reimagined how rockets work—swapping kerosene for methane, adding dual cryogenic turbopumps, and implementing a full-flow staged combustion cycle never before flown in ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping matter 40 times faster than the theoretical limit. It turns out, dust may ...