NASA's Hubble and Chandra X-ray Observatories have identified a rare intermediate-mass black hole, NGC 6099 HLX-1, consuming ...

Astronomers have caught a rare type of black hole in the act of devouring a star—an event that lit up the universe in X-rays.

Quasars are among the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe,bright, energetic beacons powered by supermassive ...

A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

Supermassive black holes spiral towards each other in this simulation created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that ...

Astronomers have made a series of first-of-their-kind observations that uncover the dusty remains of stars ripped apart by ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

The location of the possible newborn black hole is shown in the center, along with the two other black holes that were ...

The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

A supermassive black hole may have nibbled on the same star twice, once in 2022 and again in 2024. Since the star seemed to survive the first encounter and returned, scientists now believe these ...