Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process. Soon, ...

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Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the first time, direct evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array ...

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 ...

as its outbursts were spotted by the Zwicky Transient Facility on the Samuel Oschin Telescope at California's Palomar Observatory in 2019. Now, new findings show that Ansky flares in X-rays ...

Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker sit at Palomar Observatory in 1994. Credit: U.S. Geologic Survey Carolyn Shoemaker identified many asteroids and comets, including the famous Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.

The sudden, bright flare from the event was picked up by the Zwicky Transient Facility, a sky-surveying optical camera mounted on a telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego. Follow-up ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech's Palomar Observatory, with its 1.2-meter telescope that surveys the entire northern sky every two days, first observed the event. "Tidal disruption events ...