Captured by the VST, NGC 3640 reveals a turbulent history of cosmic cannibalism, but its current companion, NGC 3641, remains ...

NASA announced on Thursday that it has discovered a massive and odd roaming black hole that once swallowed a star. This ...

The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a ...

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, revealing a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far ...

Located around 600 million light-years from Earth, the black hole sat quietly in the dark space between stars.

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.