Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have ...

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 endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University ...

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

These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.

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

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

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 ...

The object, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, first appeared in 2009. Chandra caught the bright X-ray flash near the galaxy’s outskirts.

Astronomers may have found a rare intermediate-mass black hole outside galaxy NGC 6099—offering clues about how bigger black holes form.

NASA's Hubble and Chandra X-ray Observatories have identified a rare intermediate-mass black hole, NGC 6099 HLX-1, consuming ...