A burst of X-rays from 8 billion years ago may be the first clear evidence of a white dwarf torn apart by a black hole.

An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping ...

The discovery challenges existing theories of how matter close to supermassive black holes behaves.

Astronomers studying a brief optical flare detected in 2022 say it may have been caused by a black hole ripping apart a star, and the event’s unusual properties point toward a type of black hole that ...

Internationally-vetted data suggests we've witnessed a rare intermediate-mass black hole devouring a white dwarf along the outskirts of a distant galaxy.

On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose brightness varied rapidly during a routine sky survey. Its unusual signal ...

Some of the universe’s most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that most of the light around the Circinus galaxy's central black hole is coming from hot dust feeding it rather than the material getting blasted out.

BEIJING -- China's Tianguan satellite -- also named the Einstein Probe -- has likely captured an intermediate-mass black hole ...

On 2 July, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose brightness varied rapidly during a routine sky survey. Its unusual signal ...