Astronomers have used a novel technique to find evidence of a secret "buddy" star orbiting Betelgeuse, one of the brightest ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

The findings confirm a long-standing theory first proposed in the early 1900s. More importantly, it sheds new light on how ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

A supermassive black hole may have nibbled on the same star twice, once in 2022 and again in 2024. Since the star seemed to survive the first encounter and returned, scientists now believe these ...

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.