A new discovery challenges the previously accepted understanding of how stars interact with black holes. While it’s often said that lightning never strikes the same place twice, black holes seem to ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers hunted supermassive black holes devouring stars in dusty galaxies — but ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...