A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO Directed by: ...

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

A star managed to escape a supermassive black hole's grasp, only to return for a second encounter, challenging our understanding of tidal disruption events.

“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

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

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the star’s fate is sealed. The SMBH’s gravity is overwhelming, and as the star is drawn toward the hole, it is stretched out and ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...

With the discovery of Infinity Galaxy, researchers believe they have found evidence of a direct collapse black hole by ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed a star’s survival following a tidal disruption event with a supermassive black ...