Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of ...

A star exploded roughly 260 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and astronomers have now traced the blast’s fingerprints in X-ray and infrared ...

Astronomers have uncovered new details about the black hole that ripped apart a star in a tidal disruption event named ...

A new study debunks a recent claim that astronomers may have detected a lunar-mass primordial black hole. In a reanalysis of ...

Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing clues of a dramatic cosmic history. The star, which quietly orbits a ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe. They can fling material outwards at speeds close to that of light, in powerful beams of plasma known as jets. These jets are thought to ...

Thanks to the Event Horion Telescope, we now know black holes exist, but a new study published recently in Physical Review D ...

Tidal disruption events — the brief, violent episodes in which a star wanders too close to a dormant supermassive black hole and is pulled apart by tidal forces — are messier and more varied than ...

An artist’s rendering of a black hole like the one in the center of our galaxy. While the black disk in the center is the ...