Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ...

Astronomers have captured a rare image of the flare produced when a supermassive black hole tore apart a star on the ...

Once every 10,000 years or so, the center of a galaxy lights up as its supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star. This “tidal disruption event” happens in a literal flash, as the central black ...

NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing through massive astronomy datasets. What began as a class project quickly ...

This artist's concept depicts a tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black ...