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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, ...
Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...
NASA's Hubble captured a rare event 600 million light-years away: a black hole devouring a star in a Tidal Disruption Event ...
NASA has captured the astronomical event, called a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE), using its Hubble Space Telescope.
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 ...
A traveling black hole stalking the cosmos for stellar prey recently revealed itself by shredding a star in a radioactive ...
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...
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 ...
NASA announced on Thursday that it has discovered a massive and odd roaming black hole that once swallowed a star. This ...
The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a ...