Scary Barbie was born from the final death throes of a star being torn to shreds by a supermassive black hole. Black holes feed upon unfortunate stars that cross their paths, using tidal forces ...

Massive black hole dubbed ‘Scary Barbie’ photographed devouring a star By . Ben Cost. Published April 28, 2023. Updated April 28, 2023, 12:48 p.m. ET.

Meet 'Scary Barbie,' a black hole slaughtering a star in the brightest way possible. News. By Ben Turner published 9 May 2023 ... Black holes feed upon unfortunate stars that cross their paths, ...

Astronomers at Purdue University have detected an enormous black hole that is devouring a giant star in a remote part of space. Dubbed "Scary Barbie," the cosmic event is considered brighter and ...

Listen to the soothing sounds of a supermassive black hole 00:36. Astronomers have detected an impressive supermassive black hole devouring a star – and they've nicknamed it "Scary Barbie," in ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Sagittarius A is one of ten black holes NASA used to put together this animation (check the video below). The smallest is in a dwarf galaxy called 1601+3113, which is only 100,000 times to size of ...

New research can help us understand how supermassive black holes formed — and why many of them appear to be more massive than ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Black holes are scary for three reasons. If you fell into a black hole left over when a star died, you would be shredded. Also, the massive black holes seen at the center of all galaxies have ...

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that. They are truly fascinating wonders, from how they form, their many types ...

Black holes are one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena, despite how much we continue to learn about them. While considered a mathematical possibility for many years, the first black hole wasn ...