"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have ...

This process would shrink its orbit, resulting in QPEs happening increasingly faster, until the star is either ripped apart by the black hole's gravitational tidal forces, or otherwise merges with it.

Black holes, celestial objects known for their gluttony, usually eat stars unlucky enough to stray too close to them in one big gulp, annihilating them with their enormous gravitational pull. But ...

D9 is the first star pair ever found near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This image shows an emission line of hydrogen mapped by the SINFONI instrument ...

The black hole's gravity rips the star to shreds, resulting in a huge burst of radiation. We've observed this happening several times now.

It’s another star that takes a whopping 70,000 years to circle the black hole once. The outer star’s beleaguered journey around the black hole stems from the massive distance between the two.