This can happen in many ways, including the titanic explosion of a dying star or the collapse of primordial hydrogen into the supermassive black holes at ... history of astronomy, we have found ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

A star exploding in a supernovae or being ejected from a tight cluster of stars are a couple ways. Close encounters with a black hole are another ... Han told Astronomy, “They have to come ...

And that's what we can look at to see a black hole. So for example, in radio emission, where I study things, if there's gas or a star falling onto a supermassive black hole, as it's going and ...

The black hole's rotation axis is tilted by more than 40 degrees with respect to the axis of the star's orbit. "This finding challenges current theoretical models of black hole formation," Berdyugina ...

This artist’s impression shows a star ... Astronomy – this light was an indication of an event as distant as it is rare. A star unwisely passed close enough to a supermassive black hole ...