Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars. These extreme nuclear transients, like the event nicknamed “Barbie,” ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have found that a black hole that shredded a star has moved onto a another star or stellar black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hoba ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, in a tribute to ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar origins.

The study went on to note that a cause for the pulse could have been that it was struck by a small piece of space rock, known ...

The chaotic interactions between galaxies spark the birth of new stars and likely planets. Using its sharp resolution and ...