Using more than a decade of observations from the VISTA Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), researchers measured the ...
When a star gets too close to a black hole, sparks fly. And, potentially, so do subatomic particles called neutrinos. A dramatic light show results when a supermassive black hole rips apart a wayward ...
Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. In a new study published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, we have ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains ...
A new cosmic crime scene reconstruction tells the full story of a star ripped apart by a ravenous black hole, revealing a previously unknown aspect of these tidal disruption events. When you purchase ...
Supermassive black holes appear to be present at the core of nearly every galaxy. Every now and again, a star wanders too close to one of these monsters and experiences what’s called a tidal ...
Sometime in early 2024, a star drifted too close to something massive, invisible, and lurking far from any galactic center.
It's a cosmic jungle out there for stars that venture too close to black holes. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found 18 new examples of black holes that are ripping apart ...
A new study is a significant breakthrough in understanding Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) involving supermassive black holes. The new simulations accurately replicate the entire sequence of a TDE from ...
Scientists have used a sophisticated simulation to reconstruct the brutal death of a star that wandered too close to a supermassive black hole and was shredded to bits. The team, led by researchers ...
What can dormant black holes teach astronomers about tidal disruption events (TDEs), which is the bright flash observed when a black hole consumes a star that passes too close to it? This is what a ...