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

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 ...

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 ...