The James Webb Space Telescope's early observations revealed mysterious little red dots, believed to be compact, early ...
The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...
The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are ...
Tidal disruption events occur when a star strays too close to a massive black hole and is ripped apart by its gravity. In ...
Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...
Lycoming College invites the Williamsport community and surrounding areas to enjoy a free show in its Detwiler Planetarium on ...
A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s ...
For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...
Fellows receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant to pursue their interests. Since 2020, UC alumni and faculty have ...
A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...
Astronomers have caught a runaway black hole in the act of tearing apart a star in a place it shouldn’t be: far from the bustling center of its host galaxy. The stellar catastrophe – known as a tidal ...
"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...