The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

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 devouring a star (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab)So it's a little disturbing thinking about a star getting shredded to bits with the same ease someone chomps into a stringy ...

When a black hole devours a star, some of the celestial material that makes up the star occasionally gets flung out back into space, which astronomers liken to black holes being messy eaters, the ...

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 ...

Black holes are messy eaters, so it’s not unusual for them to fling stellar material back into space. But three years is an uncommonly long time for a black hole to keep its lunch down.

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.

TDEs are brilliantly bright moments that occur when a black hole exerts a tide on a passing star and then rips the star into pieces. As the star is torn apart by the black hole’s giant tidal ...