When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers have created a stunning animation showing the suspected intermediate-mass black hole ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Legacy Surveys / D. Lang (Perimeter Institute) / INAF / F. Onori Astronomers have taken a ...

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have observed IGR J12580+0134, which is the closest tidal disruption event.

Back in 2024, a system set up to identify objects that suddenly brighten found something unusual. Unfortunately, the automated system that was supposed to identify it couldn’t figure out what it was ...

An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, in which a star is spaghettified and the remains form an accretion disk around the black hole. Typically, about half the star’s mass is drawn into ...

Astronomers from Curtin University in Australia and elsewhere have performed radio observations of a tidal disruption event known as AT2019azh. Results of the new study, published September 22 on the ...

Using various telescopes worldwide, an international team of astronomers has observed a tidal disruption event (TDE) known as AT2018hyz, which allowed them to witness a rapid brightening of this ...

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