Doomed star circling supermassive black hole could be ripped apart in less than 6 years; ... Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University.

Each time the star plows through the disk and produces a QPE, it loses some orbital energy, causing it to spiral closer to the maw of the black hole. Assuming the star has the same mass as our sun ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture the size of the Earth. One participating EHT telescope, highlighted here, is ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Listen to the soothing sounds of a supermassive black hole 00:36. Astronomers have detected an impressive supermassive black hole devouring a star – and they've nicknamed it "Scary Barbie," in ...

The event, which scientists have classified as AT2018hyz, began in 2018 when astronomers saw the black hole ensnare a hapless star in its strong gravitational pull before shredding it to pieces ...

A supermassive black hole was observed belching up a star it gobbled up three years earlier — leaving astronomers puzzled by the delayed intergalactic indigestion.

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Astronomers have spied a "black widow" lurking in space 3,000 light-years from Earth, and it's a record-breaking cosmic object. Called a neutron star, the dense, collapsed remnants of a massive ...

The Black River Astronomical Society is one of the longest running astronomy clubs in the area with its founding in 1949. ... “At one of the public parks, a local astronomy club had a star party.