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 ...

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 ...

Telescopes have captured the rare light flash from a dying star as it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. This rarely seen "tidal disruption event" — which creates spaghettification in ...

Astronomers have detected an impressive supermassive black hole devouring a star – and they've nicknamed it "Scary Barbie," in part because of its terrifying power. Scientists called it one of the ...

Astronomers have spotted a rare and radiant pulse of light—the last gasp of a dying star that has been sucked toward the center of a supermassive black hole and shredded into sinuous strings of ...

Picture yourself drifting in space, caught in the pull of a black hole. The idea feels like pure science fiction, yet physicists have spent decades calculating what would really happen if a human fell ...

Tidal disruption involves death by spaghettification of a nearby star to a black hole Spaghettification occurs when a star is devoured by a black hole Astronomers can now better understand how ...

Scientists have spotted a supermassive hole "sucking in" a star around 215 million light-years from Earth, causing it to be "spaghettified." The term spaghettification term describes the bizarre ...

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 ...

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 ...