Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

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

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

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

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the first direct evidence of a wandering supermassive black ...

They have successfully simulated the 'Black Hole Bomb' theory in a lab. This theory, proposed in the 1970s, explores tapping into a black hole's rotational energy. The experiment involved a ...

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided scientists with a unique opportunity to answer a longstanding question ...

Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk ...

the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. A regular black hole would have the light ring and the outer horizon, but also an inner horizon, which would enclose a core or a ...

Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its center. This supermassive beast doesn’t ...