JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

We discovered what we think is a black hole merging with a massive companion star, shredding it into a disk that feeds the black hole. It’s a rare and awe-inspiring phenomenon,” said Daniel Perley, ...

Manchester could bring back public events including bonfires and firework displays after the government increased funding for ...

A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy ...

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It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a ...

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I do not know if a black hole is something we should feed. Ostensibly they are things (anti-things? I'm not a black holeologist) that I would like to be far away from, given what I've heard. And yet ...