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 ...

A view of the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster, one of the most massive objects in the universe, shows the ...

Astronomers have witnessed an extremely rare occurrence: the end of a star's life, as it's obliterated by a supermassive black hole. And this particular star's collapse was even more unique, because ...

In work that could help scientists understand how matter behaves when it's close to supermassive black holes, a star has been observed while getting sucked into one in what's known as a tidal ...

When falling towards a black hole, an object is stretched in the direction of the black hole (and compressed perpendicular to it) ...

When a star strays too close to a supermassive black hole, extreme gravitational forces ravage it, shredding and stretching it into spaghetti. The term for this gruesome process is actually ...