Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

The flares could be caused by interacting dust clouds, or maybe a cocoon of material around the black hole delays the flow of radio emission until later. It is currently unclear which theory, or ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

However, ENTs differ significantly from normal black hole accretion which typically shows irregular and unpredictable changes in brightness. The smooth and long-lived flares of ENTs indicated a ...

The flare they studied originated from IGR J17091-3624, a black hole sitting 28,000 light-years from Earth. Using X-ray data taken with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and ...