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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 ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

Scientists have long observed black holes existing as part of binary systems, where a black hole pairs with a nearby object ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

This discovery underscores the power of modern processing techniques applied to decades-old data. NASA researchers plan to ...

The discovery is a remarkable piece of astrophysical ... But there's not a lot we know about the supermassive black hole in the galactic center. NGC 5084 is edge-on to us, which makes galactic ...

The black hole is located in a galaxy called NGC 5084 ... who will also publish a paper about the discovery, in the news release. "Putting all the pictures together revealed that NGC 5084 has ...

The black hole may increase its mass by about six times. However, it's uncertain what the outcome will be. Some gas could form new stars, while other portions may be expelled into space. This ...