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

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

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 ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

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

A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...

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 ...