Astronomers have discovered the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, revealing that a black hole literally consumed a star ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

An international team of astronomers found the first bright radio emission from a tidal disruption event (TDE) outside the ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. This discovery upends conventional wisdom about such tidal disruption ...

Images taken of the Universe's most photogenic black hole over time reveal strange and exciting changes in its magnetic field. Using observations obtained using the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, ...

Astronomers have caught a runaway black hole in the act of tearing apart a star in a place it shouldn’t be: far from the bustling center of its host galaxy. The stellar catastrophe – known as a tidal ...