An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by ...

The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

A bomb from a black hole would probably be the most destructive weapon in the universe. Now Hendrik Ulbricht of the ...

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark object's identity, after much hubbub. The new analysis shows that the ...

Hubble spots a rogue black hole ripping a star outside its galaxy’s center in the first known offset TDE, led by Dr. Yuhan Yao's team.

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

But they can’t hide their gravity! The first hint of a rogue black hole came when it passed in front of a dim background star in 2011. Black holes have so much gravity that they visibly warp the ...

The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space. "We think most black holes form from violent explosions of ...