The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

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

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Despite residing in one of the galaxy's most extreme star-forming environments — just 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — and containing vast reserves of ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through a galaxy with an even larger black hole at its core.

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

“The classic location where you expect massive black holes to be in a galaxy is in the center, like our Sag A* at the center of the Milky Way,” explained lead researcher Yuhan Yao of UC Berkeley.

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black hole in a neighboring galaxy ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a tidal disruption event has been seen in interacting galaxies.