Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers a burst of X-rays.

Astronomers have found the most distant known example of a star being eaten by a supermassive black hole, creating one of the brightest events ever seen in the universe.

A black hole ripped apart a star and brought together astronomers from around the world Astronomers spotted a ‘weird’ flash in February, equivalent to the light of more than 1,000 trillion suns.

Astronomers studied the remains of a massive star ripped apart by a black hole in an epic astro-forensic murder investigation.

Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a dramatic and complex process as the star plunging towards the ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new bursts of energy years after devouring a star—"the equivalent of a cosmic burp, ...

Astronomers discovered a middle-weight black hole as it shredded a star to pieces and released a massive Tidal Disruption Event.

Some black holes may be messier than others when it comes to their eating habits, according to new research. Intermediate-mass black holes take a few bites out of wayward stars before tossing away ...

Star’s final moments witnessed when Hubble Space Telescope finds evidence a black hole “violently” ripped it apart, NASA reports.

Astronomers have spied a huge gas cloud being pulled like taffy around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.