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.

These ancient black holes could be much smaller than those formed from stars. Some scientists even theorize that they could be the elusive dark matter, the mysterious substance th ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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