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

On each pass, the star kicks out one Jupiter's worth of mass from the black hole's disk. A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of ...

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 ...

Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey 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 ...

Now, about a year later, we know it's the first tidal disruption event—meaning a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole—identified at visual wavelengths. It's also a rather ...

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 ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole consuming a star outside a galaxy's center for the first time, challenging previous assumptions. The event, named "AT2024tvd," occurred 600 ...

Star Wars TV Shows Star Wars fans have spotted a neat parallel between the beginning and end of Andor season 2, and it explains a late season plot hole Star Wars Movies Star Wars fans have spotted ...

It sounds like something from a sci-fi thriller. A giant black hole quietly drifted through space before tearing a star apart. Now, thanks to NASA telescopes, this silent predator has been caught ...

Nearly 100 unionized nurses at Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea have given notice of plans to hold an informational picket next Saturday. The Hawaii Nurses’ Association ...