This event is the first identified offset Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) recorded. A one million-solar-mass black hole resides outside its host galaxy's centre. In a scene straight out of a sci-fi ...

A TDE happens when an infalling star gets too close to a black hole. NASA has released a stunning image of a black hole swallowing a star and causing a massive explosion. Although the cosmic event ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have ...

Binary star found near our galaxy's supermassive black hole. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241217130904.htm ...

"What happens when you throw a star at a black hole?" It's not a question we can physically answer here on Earth. Thankfully, actual black holes and stars can't be smashed together in the lab!

Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a dramatic and complex process as the star plunging towards 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 ...

A star appears to be locked in a lethal dance with a supermassive black hole. According to a team of astronomers, this unlucky star gets almost torn apart each time its orbit swings past the black ...

A Death Star is born. As if regular old star-gobbling black holes weren’t terrifying enough, scientists discovered that certain types swivel around and shoot beams at various objects in the ...

They studied VFTS 243, a massive black hole binary system at the edge of the Milky Way. VFTS 243 consists of a large star and a black hole roughly 10 times larger than our Sun. Though the black ...

The man had been working on the deck of a mobile scaffold, which slipped, causing him to fall onto a star picket below. What's next? A victim impact statement from the worker was read out in ...