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Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of one supernova, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had seen.

There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died

By Noor Al-Sibai

James Webb Spots Oldest Supermassive Black Hole Ever

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Oldest Supermassive Black Hole Ever

By Sharon Adarlo

A poor star some 173 million light years succumbed to the gaping maw of a black hole, dying in what's known as a tidal disruption event.

Grim Images Show Helpless Star Disappearing Into Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

For the first time, astronomers have captured the powerful jets spewing out of a black hole and the black hole itself in the same image.

New Image of Black Hole Shows Colossal Jets Looking Like Tentacles

By Victor Tangermann

Earthlings, meet your celestial neighbor: an absolutely massive black hole, which is lying dormant in a nearby binary star system.

Scientists Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The James Webb Space Telescope just dropped an amazing new image of the black hole-centered "Cartwheel Galaxy" in greater detail than ever seen before.

James Webb Space Telescope

Incredible New James Webb Image Shows “Cartwheel Galaxy” In Glorious Detail

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA released creepy wailing noises made by a black hole in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster on Wednesday. Researchers have studied it since 2003.

Scientists Capture the Mournful Wailing of a Black Hole

By Lonnie Lee Hood

scientists this week tossed eight stars against a black hole one million times the mass of the Sun in a simulated battle to see which intergalactic contender would win.

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out How to Kill Stars with Black Holes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists might have discovered a rare and (frankly) unsettling cosmic event: a black hole eating a star from the inside out and causing a supernova.

Science & Energy

Parasite Black Hole Eats Gigantic Star from Inside Out

By Tony Ho Tran

After Decades, Mystery Surrounding Giant Space Explosions Is Solved

Science & Energy

After Decades, Mystery Surrounding Giant Space Explosions Is Solved

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted evidence that a distant star has wrapped itself around a supermassive black hole, a process known as "spaghettification."

Science & Energy

Scientist Spot Star That’s Been Stretched Out and Wrapped Around a Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

The European Southern Observatory published a video that shows what it would be like to leave Earth, plunge into M87, and arrive at its central black hole.

Science & Energy

Amazing Video Zooms All the Way From Earth to First Photographed Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A new image, released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, shows the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy in polarized light.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Release Stunning New Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say they've found a new kind of signal coming from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, which they think are rapidly-rotating flare ups.

Science & Energy

Stars Apparently Used to Be Way, Way, Way Bigger

By Tony Ho Tran

A bizarre theory claims that dark matter might be made of tiny primordial black holes, which themselves might contain other universes.

Scientists Claim Black Holes Are Made of Collapsed Universes

By Dan Robitzski

After a citizen scientist saw what looked like beams of darkness coming out of a black hole, scientists think it's similar to light piercing through clouds.

Science & Energy

Hubble Glimpses Huge “Dark Rays” Streaming Out of Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski