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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the past, these flares have often been obscured by exploding dust and debris, making them difficult to study. But this time, astronomers lucked out. This tidal disruption event, named AT2019qiz ...

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 ...

In a tidal disruption event, an unfortunate star passes too close to a dormant supermassive black hole and gets torn apart by tidal forces, feeding the black hole for a short time. Astronomers use ...