Astronomers have watched as a supermassive black hole enjoying a stellar meal flashed twice in a rare and powerful event. This double-flash Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) could result from the black ...

A new NASA simulation takes us on what might be one of the scariest trips in the universe — spiralling into a reality-warping black hole. In recent years, astronomers have given us our first look at ...

A distant supermassive black hole may have bitten off more than it can chew! Not only did the star it selected for a stellar meal escape its clutches, but it came back for a second encounter! Evidence ...

The first stars in the universe formed out of pristine hydrogen and helium clouds, in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Astronomers recently watched a supermassive black hole rip apart an unwary star much like our Sun. Just before a star falls into a black hole, the tremendous gravity of the black hole pulls the star ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...

Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a dramatic and complex process as the star plunging towards the ...

"These objects are a distinct species all of their own that live and die out in thousands of years rather than the millions of years that are common in galaxies with bigger jets." When you purchase ...

A distant star, dying a fiery and dramatic death, torn apart by a supermassive black hole in a forgotten corner of the sky. One of the most luminous, energetic, long-lasting transient objects didn’t ...

A growing list of dark star candidates could help explain why some early galaxies were so big, so early in the universe. This galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0 (shown in the pullout), is one of the most distant ...