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Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...
Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...
Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...
NASA's Hubble captured a rare event 600 million light-years away: a black hole devouring a star in a Tidal Disruption Event ...
Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...
A traveling black hole stalking the cosmos for stellar prey recently revealed itself by shredding a star in a radioactive ...
Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...
NASA has captured the astronomical event, called a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE), using its Hubble Space Telescope.
The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a ...
NASA announced on Thursday that it has discovered a massive and odd roaming black hole that once swallowed a star. This ...
Caption In a Tidal Disruption Event, a star moves close enough to a supermassive black hole so that the gravitational pull of the black hole bends the star until it is destroyed (image 1). The ...