A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s ...

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

Even huge stars are not always safe out there. When the orbit of a star three times as massive as our own took the star too close to a hefty black hole, the black hole’s gravity ripped the star’s guts ...

The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.

A close encounter more than 10,000 years ago stirred up spirals in the accretion disk surrounding the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Dr. LU Xing, an associate researcher from the Shanghai ...

A model of ultraviolet and optical emission from the tidal disruption event AT 2018hyz is shown in this schematic diagram. As an accretion disk forms quickly after the TDE, it generates x-ray emission ...

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A star about 1,360 light-years away from Earth, named FU Orionis, is twice as hot as astronomers previously suspected, according to recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, scientists ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a rotating disc of material circling a massive young star in a nearby galaxy for the first time. Megan Reiter, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at ...

JWST's latest discovery is poised to change everything about massive star formation and the creation of such objects in the ...