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

It’s a pattern that keeps repeating itself. And it’s not a winning pattern. Week after week, the Eagles are digging themselves a first-quarter hole. And week after week, they’re too far behind to ...

A black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is behaving like no other black hole astronomers have ever seen. "It was completely unexpected," Giovanni Miniutti, an astronomer at Spain's Center of ...

A doomed star spiraling into a supermassive black hole has given physicists one of their clearest looks yet at how gravity warps reality itself. As the star was shredded, its glowing debris did not ...

The dramatic dimming of a light source ~ 870 million light years away from Earth confirms the accuracy of a detailed model. The dramatic dimming of a light source ~ 860 million light-years away from ...

Recent discoveries by astronomers have revealed the presence of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from a region near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. These enigmatic signals have ...

Fast radio bursts are having a moment in the science community. After another repeating fast radio signal was traced to a nearby galaxy last month, a new study found that this burst occurs in a ...

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