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 ...

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 ...

NASA has released three new pieces of cosmic sound that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: ...

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

McDonald’s revealed Thursday that it will bring back its eagerly anticipated chicken strips following a five-year ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Scientists have created an optical device capable of mimicking black holes and the still hypothetical white holes. This ...

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 ...