Armchair astronomers sought to hunt for stars being torn apart by black holes - A new project will capture the night sky over ...

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Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.

What can dormant black holes teach astronomers about tidal disruption events (TDEs), which is the bright flash observed when a black hole consumes a star that passes too close to it? This is what a ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have re-created the stellar murder in a stunning new animation. When you purchase ...

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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole and is gravitationally torn apart by tidal forces. The resulting stellar debris forms an accretion disc ...

A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole ...

Astronomers using data from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and other observatories around the world have discovered the most energetic explosions to occur since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ...