For the first time, astronomers have detected intense, fast-changing radio signals from a tidal disruption event, dubbed ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

The death of a star at the hands of a massive black hole in a galaxy 650 million light-years away has surprised astronomers, ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH ...

A supermassive black hole tears up a star in a tidal disruption event, pulling gas away and creating an accretion disk. Credit: Ralf Crawford illustration When a star strays too close to a ...

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...

Neutron stars pack extreme mass into tiny volumes. Scientists explore how compact they can become before collapsing into ...

Astronomers have caught a runaway black hole in the act of tearing apart a star in a place it shouldn’t be: far from the bustling center of its host galaxy. The stellar catastrophe – known as a tidal ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object called “The Cliff” appears to show that many of the mysterious “little red ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have pieced together a key part of the galaxy evolution puzzle, ...