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 black hole is ripping apart an unfortunate star, stretching it like taffy and shaping the "leftovers" into a stellar donut the size of the solar system before feasting on this cosmic ...

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 ...

However, no one has ever been able to detect these black holes because the chances of them lining up with a large star are so slim. Black holes are the ultra-dense remains of exploded stars which ...

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 ...