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, ...

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 ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model to study ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes ...

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

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

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed a black hole devouring a star. Skip to main content. ... NASA 360-degree video shows what it’s like to plunge into a black hole Space; ...

If its mass collapses into an infinitely small point, a black hole is born. Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into such a tiny point gives black holes their powerful ...