Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a large star and strewn its contents into space," according to NASA. Credit: ...

A rather unusual candidate for dark matter could be lurking inside stars, slowly eating them from ... forming around a ...

AT 2021hdr is a binary supermassive black hole (BSMBH) system in the center of a galaxy 1 billion light-years away, in the Cygnus constellation. In 2021, researchers observing it using NASA’s Zwicky ...

The revelation comes courtesy of two strange black hole binary systems discovered by the high-precision star-tracking Gaia space telescope. The systems actually contain two of the closest black ...

More and more pulsar accelerations are coming, allowing us to peer into the centers of dense star clusters and hunt for black holes more precisely than ever before." Andrés Bañares Hernández ...

The giant holes in galaxies’ centers shouldn’t be able to combine, yet combine they do. Scientists suggest that an unusual ...

Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ventures too close—be it star, planet, or spacecraft—will be stretched and ...

A new gateway into understanding quasars.

Wolk A black hole’s destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star forms a debris disk that encounters a second star, triggering repeating X ...

Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from their vicinity. They form when the core of a massive star collapses on itself, and they act as cosmic ...

Black holes can form after a star explodes as a supernova, leaving behind a dense remnant core called a proto-neutron star. "Proto-neutron stars are the mothers of black holes in that when they ...

Scientists believe that at the heart of all large galaxies lurk supermassive black holes, cosmic titans with ... Jets prevent star formation by heating this gas and preventing it from condensing ...