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

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

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

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

Imagine dropping your phone into a campfire and later finding only a pile of ash. No serial number, no photos, no clue the ...

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

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

As the star approaches, it gets twisted and pulled, and about half of it ends up flung outward. The other half forms a Frisbee-shaped accretion disk around the black hole itself.

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...