A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

In an exciting breakthrough in the study of tidal disruption events (TDEs), astronomers have captured the intense and rapid ...

A star managed to escape a supermassive black hole's grasp, only to return for a second encounter, challenging our understanding of tidal disruption events.

“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU), together with international collaborators, have identified what may be the first ...

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the star’s fate is sealed. The SMBH’s gravity is overwhelming, and as the star is drawn toward the hole, it is stretched out and ...

JWST spotted over 300 mysterious red dots from the early universe. Though once thought to be galaxies, scientists now believe ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...