Supermassive black holes are not picky eaters. They placidly sit at the center of galaxies, but if material gets too close, they’ll voraciously gorge on it. Stars have been disrupted and eaten ...

At first, it appeared to be an average "run-of-the-mill" TDE (if a black hole snacking on a star could ever be described as run-of-the-mill, that is!). However, 720 days later, while Hinkle and ...

This star was in the midst of being torn apart by a black hole. The star itself had no hope of escaping the black hole’s grasp once it drifted into its event horizon — the area around a black ...

If the material gets too near the black hole, it gets sucked in and eaten by the hole ... from quasars are so powerful that they can stop a star from forming or accelerate its formation.