A giant star that seems to have wandered too close to an even bigger black hole may have been shredded and devoured in a cosmic meal that produced the most powerful flare of its kind ever seen. At ...
Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...
This summer, astronomers detected a gamma ray burst (GRB) so powerful that they’re still struggling to explain what caused it. These cosmic explosions are typically produced by stars dying in a ...
It was a “light” meal for this star destroyer. A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the light of a trillion suns, ...
A black hole that was eaten by a star seems to have gotten revenge by consuming the star from the inside, producing a gamma-ray burst spotted about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The burst, called ...
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Three black holes light up at once in rare three-galaxy collision
In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...
Three galaxies were found in the merger of a triple system, which was rare in itself, and might help observe hierarchical ...
A supermassive black hole tears up a star in a tidal disruption event, pulling gas away and creating an accretion disk. Credit: Ralf Crawford illustration When a star strays too close to a ...
It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary cosmic outburst this July which likely heralds a new kind of stellar ...
Virgil is the reddest Little Red Dot discovered so far, and its hidden black hole may offer a clue to the fate of this mysterious population. If many of these objects host dust-covered black holes, ...
Astronomers suspect that the flare is a a burst of radiation that occurs when a black hole consumes a hapless star, ripping it apart and swallowing it. Astronomers are continuing to monitor the black ...
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