A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

Supermassive black holes lurk all throughout the known universe, but catching one in the act of devouring its cosmic dinner ...

Learn more about how astronomers have observed an unprecedented cosmic explosion that has the potential to transform the ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process. Soon, ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through a galaxy with an even larger black hole at its core.

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a supermassive black hole. Normally, supermassive black holes live at the ...