Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

The supermassive black hole, located 300 million light-years from Earth at the core of the galaxy ESO 583-G004, snared and shredded the star after it wandered too close, sending out a powerful ...

The black hole is ripping apart an unfortunate star, stretching it like taffy and shaping the "leftovers" into a stellar donut the size of the solar system before feasting on this cosmic ...

A black hole in a galaxy not far from Earth gobbled up a star like it was a big, exploding noodle, and astronomers got a front-row seat to the action.. The "unfortunate star," as the researchers ...

To get into the intricacies of TDEs, Price and the team performed the first self-consistent simulation of a star being tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole to track the evolution of the ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Discover WildScience. Did This Star Collapse Into a Black Hole Before Our Eyes? Posted: April 16, 2025 | Last updated: April 16, 2025. In a baffling cosmic mystery, astronomers have reported a ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

More variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy could be a black hole. ESO/L. Calçada. Astronomers are trying to figure out if a star that vanished from view produced a black hole, almost before ...

According to the data, a star had come too close to a massive black hole and been ripped apart. Its stellar guts spiraled inward, heating up and glowing brightly across the electromagnetic spectrum.

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process ...