Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the first time, direct evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

A bomb from a black hole would probably be the most destructive weapon in the universe. Hypothetically, it could be created by wrapping one of these cosmic monsters in mirrors and waiting for it ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole consuming a star outside a galaxy's center for the first time, challenging previous assumptions. The event, named "AT2024tvd," occurred 600 ...

Now, about a year later, we know it's the first tidal disruption event—meaning a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole—identified at visual wavelengths. It's also a rather ...

There are “black holes after black holes” in the €250 million damages case against former head of Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS) boss Michael Fingleton, his lawyer has told the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a supermassive black hole that is not at the center of its galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Yuhan Yao / Joseph DePasquale Using NASA's Hubble ...

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." ...

Measurements of wind in a luminous galactic core reveal dense pockets of gas — a finding that calls for a rethink of how black holes interact with their host galaxies. Read the paper ...

A supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of a relatively ... The subject of the study was PDS 456, an active galactic nucleus located some 2.18 giga light-years from the Earth in the ...

Black holes are neither static nor monolithic. NASA has released three new space sounds linked to black holes. These audio clips, created using a method called sonification, translate data from ...

Researchers have finally confirmed that black holes spin. By watching the radio jet of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, researchers were able to watch it tilt, a movement ...