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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

Scientists have long observed black holes existing as part of binary systems, where a black hole pairs with a nearby object ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

The discovery is a remarkable piece of astrophysical detective ... But there's not a lot we know about the supermassive black ...

This discovery underscores the power of modern processing techniques applied to decades-old data. NASA researchers plan to ...

Astronomers discover a quasar 12 billion light-years away with a water reservoir 140 trillion times larger than Earth's ...

The black hole is located in a galaxy called NGC 5084 ... who will also publish a paper about the discovery, in the news release. "Putting all the pictures together revealed that NGC 5084 has ...