Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." ...

Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through a galaxy with ...

A star met a violent end in a galaxy ... A black hole merger that could release these powerful gravitational waves that Yao mentioned could one day be detected by future space-based observatories ...

Long ago, in a galaxy 600 ... to a massive black hole and was torn apart. This image combines observations of the tidal disruption event obtained in August 2024 by the Hubble Space Telescope ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the ...

The Milky Way is often referred to as a medium-sized galaxy in the universe ... a non-common behavior. Although black holes cannot be seen and the only way scientists notice their presence is through ...

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have ...

NASA has produced a set of sonifications of black holes, turning these images into sounds as a different way to convey data collected by telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope, Chandra X ...

A giant black ... Space Telescope, along with Chandra X-ray and the Very Large Array, they discovered that the black hole isn’t where it should be. It doesn’t sit at the heart of its galaxy.