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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

Scientists have long observed black holes existing as part of binary systems, where a black hole pairs with a nearby object ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

Astronomers have discovered an important piece of the puzzle of how supermassive black holes were able to grow so quickly in ...

This discovery underscores the power of modern processing techniques applied to decades-old data. NASA researchers plan to ...

Astronomers discover a quasar 12 billion light-years away with a water reservoir 140 trillion times larger than Earth's ...

The discovery is a remarkable piece of astrophysical ... But there's not a lot we know about the supermassive black hole in the galactic center. NGC 5084 is edge-on to us, which makes galactic ...