Astronomers have spotted a rare and radiant pulse of light—the last gasp of a dying star that has been sucked toward the center of a supermassive black hole and shredded into sinuous strings of ...

A supermassive black hole tears up a star in a tidal disruption event, pulling gas away and creating an accretion disk. Credit: Ralf Crawford illustration When a star strays too close to a ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics collaborated to publish a paper on a star’s spaghettification, the process in which a star is ripped apart by a black hole, last Monday.

A rare blast of light, emitted by a star as it is sucked in by a supermassive black hole, has been spotted by scientists using telescopes from around the world. The phenomenon, known as a tidal ...

Picture yourself drifting in space, caught in the pull of a black hole. The idea feels like pure science fiction, yet physicists have spent decades calculating what would really happen if a human fell ...

If you have never seen a black hole devour a star, you are in for a treat, as what you are about to witness is a violent but super interesting process called "spaghettification". 700 million ...

When falling towards a black hole, an object is stretched in the direction of the black hole (and compressed perpendicular to it) ...

A black hole is a region of spacetime with such strong gravitational force that nothing, not even light, can escape from its depths. Jocelyn Burnell, an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland, warned in ...