A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

Supermassive black holes spiral towards each other in this simulation created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that ...

Astronomers have made a series of first-of-their-kind observations that uncover the dusty remains of stars ripped apart by ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

The location of the possible newborn black hole is shown in the center, along with the two other black holes that were ...

A study analyzing JWST observations of the early universe has uncovered an intriguing mystery: most galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This unexpected pattern, which defies current ...

The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

A supermassive black hole may have nibbled on the same star twice, once in 2022 and again in 2024. Since the star seemed to survive the first encounter and returned, scientists now believe these ...

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.