Just a year later, German physicist Karl Schwarzschild found an exact solution ... becomes truly infinite at the center of a black hole: a singularity where the laws of physics—or so it seems ...

The sneaky black hole betrayed its presence in a newly identified tidal disruption event (TDE) where a hapless star was ripped apart and swallowed in a spectacular burst of radiation. These ...

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, caused by a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far from its galaxy's center. This marks the first time a TDE has been ...

Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a black hole in the act of devouring a star, ripping it apart and creating a huge burst of radiation. It was this radiation burst ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

On each pass, the star kicks out one Jupiter's worth of mass from the black hole's disk. A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a supermassive black hole that is not at the center of its galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Yuhan Yao / Joseph DePasquale Using NASA's Hubble ...

Now, about a year later, we know it's the first tidal disruption event—meaning a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole—identified at visual wavelengths. It's also a rather ...

Physicists at the University of Southampton achieved a milestone by successfully creating a "black hole bomb" in a laboratory setting. Led by Marion Cromb, the research team designed a harmless ...

Until now, researchers have relied on powerful supercomputers to simulate black hole interactions that require refining black hole trajectories step by step, a process that is effective but slow ...

Read the paper: Structured ionized winds shooting out from a quasar at relativistic speeds No light or matter can escape from inside a black hole. However, dust and gas that is pulled towards the ...