A star in the midst of being disrupted by a supermassive black hole. As the star wanders past the super massive black hole, the tidal field of the black hole rips apart the star.
This double-flash Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) could result from the black hole catching binary stars, allowing one to escape and then devouring ... hole snacking on a star could ever be ...
Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National Geographic's global event series GENIUS ...
"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Your event horizon means I can't ...
While it's unclear what triggered the newborn jets, Meyer and her colleagues suspect the 2018 flare-up — which itself may have been due to the black hole devouring a nearby star — likely ...
A mysterious cosmic explosion, EP240408A, detected in 2023, may reveal a new black hole phenomenon. Scientists are ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...
At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* is never at rest. Using NASA’s James Webb ...