Our Milky Way galaxy is a sprawling collection of gas, dust, and hundreds of billions of stars, arrayed in a more-or-less flat disk. In the very center of the galaxy - just as in countless other large ...

Tidal disruption events occur when a black hole gobbles up a star, sending out a flash of electromagnetic radiation detectable by telescopes. In 2018, scientists discovered that one such TDE appeared ...

Like virtually all galaxies, the Milky Way has a monster lurking at its very core: a giant black hole, as massive as four million suns, which will swallow anything that ventures too close to its ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using powerful radio telescopes, scientists have captured a supermassive black hole just as it was belching out a jet of supercharged particles, offering a first look at how these ...

Using powerful radio telescopes, scientists have captured a supermassive black hole just as it was belching out a jet of supercharged particles, offering a first look at how these cosmic jets are ...

Astronomers have published a major finding: A black hole has been "burping" out energy from a small star it was observed shredding in 2018, after two years in which it didn't eject any such material.

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising behavior in black holes that has upended long-standing theories about how these cosmic giants interact with the stars they consume. These events, known as tidal ...