The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

Galaxies have been merging into ever-bigger structures over the course of cosmic history. When galaxies merge, the supermassive black holes that sit in their centers must eventually merge, too, ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.

Galaxies have been merging into ever-bigger structures over the course of cosmic history. When galaxies merge, the supermassive black holes that sit in their centers must eventually merge ...

Black holes, cosmic entities with immense gravity, trap everything, even light. These form from collapsed massive stars, ...

Astronomers have uncovered new evidence that helps solve one of space’s biggest mysteries—the existence of intermediate-mass ...

Astronomers discover more than 100 hidden black holes in a star cluster, revealing surprising movements in ancient galactic ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the hypothetical use of highly energetic events as a way to produce "gravitational-wave ...

An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

A binary black hole system is when two black holes are in the process of merging, so they are spinning around each other in a gradually decreasing orbit. They can both be spinning in the same ...

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the merger," according to ALMA scientists. The Atacama Large ...

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