An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

Then, as it gets closer, the star is quite literally ripped apart and sucked into the black hole itself. This process is formally called a tidal disruption event. Now, NASA is hoping to learn more ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

While the black hole's gravity may pull the white dwarf inward, the star is also shedding part of its outer layer into the black hole. This shedding acts as a small kick-back, such that the white ...

If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole ... An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the dense star.

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

Some of these would later collapse under gravity into galaxies and ... If this is the sort of black hole produced by the death of a star—a stellar black hole—then its effect ...