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. Half of the star ...

"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

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 described ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion, EP240408A, detected in 2023, may reveal a new black hole phenomenon. Scientists are ...

The change is thought to be the result of the massive black hole at its core devouring gas in its surroundings ... up—such as a supernova (exploding star) or a star getting ripped apart by ...

If the putative object were a smaller black hole, it would’ve plunged headlong through the accretion disk to merge with its supermassive mate—and if it were a normal star, it should’ve been ...

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 ...

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 ...