Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The flares could be caused by interacting dust clouds, or maybe a cocoon of material around the black hole delays the flow of radio emission until later. It is currently unclear which theory, or ...

Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...