Detailed image shows unusual structure of the emitted plasma jet - two supermassive black holes assumed to be merging in the ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant, waking briefly to feast ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...

"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their ...

However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around the galaxy. If they come too close, these objects are gobbled up by the ...

Scientists working to study black holes use specific radio frequencies to track black holes, the same frequencies often used ...

Astronomers have caught a rare type of black hole in the act of devouring a star—an event that lit up the universe in X-rays.

Astronomers have made a series of first-of-their-kind observations that uncover the dusty remains of stars ripped apart by ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

In an exciting breakthrough in the study of tidal disruption events (TDEs), astronomers have captured the intense and rapid ...