A black hole is burping out the remnants of a star it ripped apart and ate years ago in a type of tidal disruption event that is like nothing astronomers have ever seen.

Black holes are such a drag! Especially for the guts of stars they've destroyed and the fabric of spacetime they pull along with them.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a black hole that actually contribued to star formation, rather than demolishing them, in a dwarf galaxy 30 million light-years from Earth.

For the first time, astronomers have evidence of gravitational waves that were created when black holes devoured dense neutron stars. The gravitational waves were created nearly a billion years ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, launched in March 2025, is already delivering remarkable results. The mission captured a rare "rainbow" ...

The James Webb Space Telescope found "tiny red dots" in the early universe representing overgrown supermassive black holes and stars that are impossibly old for the infant cosmos.

A stunning rainbow-colored cloud of gas surrounds two stars that battled in deep space several hundred years ago. Astronomers were able to observe the binary star system known as HD101584 by using … ...

The lonely black hole has been traveling space ever since, and it is now followed by a tail of stars an astonishing 200,000 light-years long. That’s twice as long as the Milky Way is wide.

A stunning rainbow-colored cloud of gas surrounds two stars that battled in deep space several hundred years ago. Astronomers were able to observe the binary star system known as HD101584 by using ...

Normally, shooting stars form when particles in space — usually much smaller than an inch (just a few millimeters long) enter the atmosphere and burn brightly, in a process known as plasma emission.