Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

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

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.

Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy ...

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

In an exciting breakthrough in the study of tidal disruption events (TDEs), astronomers have captured the intense and rapid ...

“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the star’s fate is sealed. The SMBH’s gravity is overwhelming, and as the star is drawn toward the hole, it is stretched out and ...

With the discovery of Infinity Galaxy, researchers believe they have found evidence of a direct collapse black hole by ...

Here are 7 stunning images of deep space and distant galaxies, all captured by NASA’s powerful telescopes. These photos show ...