The supermassive black hole only reveals itself once every tens of thousands of years. It has gone rogue and is on a killing ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

A new kind of stellar explosion, far brighter and longer-lasting than supernovae, may help scientists explore the secrets of ...

Both Hubble and Chandra observations were combined to pinpoint the TDE's location, which is offset from the center of the ...

This cosmic explosion occurred in a distant galaxy, due to the shredding of a giant star by a supermassive black hole.Thanks to their overwhelming gravitational pull, black holes are able to shred any ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

The first known relativistic tidal disruption event, called Swift J1644+57, was detected in 2011 when NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spotted a strange burst of radiation from the center ...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ENTs, the cosmic explosions are unprecedented in their intensity.

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...