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What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...
UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...
Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...
Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...
This is really interesting. Supermassive black holes are usually found sitting in the centers of galaxies – the gravitational hub around which the entire kit and kaboodle revolves. AT2024tvd's host ...
Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the first direct evidence of a wandering supermassive black ...
Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...
Caption In a Tidal Disruption Event, a star moves close enough to a supermassive black hole so that the gravitational pull of the black hole bends the star until it is destroyed (image 1). The ...
UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a second massive black hole within another galaxy, a finding that supports the theory ...
NASA's Hubble captured a rare event 600 million light-years away: a black hole devouring a star in a Tidal Disruption Event ...