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

Astronomers have discovered a black hole in deep space that ripped apart a star millions of light-years from Earth. The process, known as "spaghettification," saw the black hole create a blast of ...

A black hole swallowing a neutron star has likely been detected for the first time, according to scientists. The Australian National University (ANU), which participated in the research ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious unknown object in our galaxy that could be a breakthrough in the study of black holes. The “extremely dense remnant of a collapsed star” lies about ...

The hole has provided astronomers with a surprising glimpse into the end of the star-forming process. The European Space Agency's Herschel infrared space telescope has made an unexpected discovery ...

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 ...