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

What can dormant black holes teach astronomers about tidal disruption events (TDEs), which is the bright flash observed when a black hole consumes a star t | Space ...

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

Astronomers have been left baffled by a cosmic discovery that defies longstanding theories about how stars interact with ...

A new discovery challenges the previously accepted understanding of how stars interact with black holes. While it’s often ...

Using various telescopes worldwide, an international team of astronomers has observed a tidal disruption event (TDE) known as ...

The Hubble Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory saw an enigmatic intermediate-mass black hole lighting up in X-rays, ...

Supermassive black holes, sitting at the core of galaxies, are known to be active and emit a lot of X-rays. Finding one way ...

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

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

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies. If you track the motion of individual stars in the ultra-dense star cluster at the very center of the Milky ...