Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions seen since the Big Bang.

A supermassive black hole was observed belching up a star it gobbled up three years earlier — leaving astronomers puzzled by the delayed intergalactic indigestion. “This caught us completely ...

Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable 'burping' bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same. When you ...

An artist's concept of a star's ... galaxy in background. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) The team has a couple of ideas about how the rogue black hole ended up offset ...

It's a cosmic jungle out there for stars that venture too close to black holes. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found 18 new examples of black holes that are ripping ...

But it turns out that this black hole only accelerated about half the stars. The other half got sped up in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the closest galaxy to our own.

radio and other waves for up to a few weeks or months while they occur. When they happen, some of the leftover gas and dust from a destroyed star is flung away from the black hole. The rest then ...