A Death Star is born. As if regular old star-gobbling black holes weren’t terrifying enough, scientists discovered that certain types swivel around and shoot beams at various objects in the ...

the stripping of a star wouldn't produce a bright flare we can detect. Certainly not for Sag A*, which is shrouded in gas and dust. But since the dense helium core remains close to the black hole, its ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

In this environment, Mumpower’s team suggest that energetic photons in a jet collide with protons to create a neutron and a ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

However, no one has ever been able to detect these black holes because the chances of them lining up with a large star are so slim. Black holes are the ultra-dense remains of exploded stars which ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

What if a star gets close enough to a star to experience ... But since the dense helium core remains close to the black hole, its dying orbit could be detected through gravitational waves.