Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the first time, direct evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process. Soon, ...

The discovery was made possible by a collaboration between ground-based and space telescopes, including the Zwicky Transient Facility and Hubble.The black hole was found 2,600 light-years from the ...

It's far more massive than a garden-variety black hole, the type that's created when a dead star collapses in on itself. But it's also not nearly as big as the kind of supermassive black hole that ...

An illustration of the event horizon of a black hole Nicholas Forder / Future Publishing via Getty Images On February 11, a star approached a supermassive black hole and subsequently was shredded ...