A supermassive black hole roughly 660 million light-years from Earth has been caught firing off a blast of energy that dwarfs ...
A star’s death may be quiet, but what follows can be far more violent. Astronomers have discovered a Sun-like star that consumed one of its own planets billions of years after its demise. Traces of ...
Back in 2022, astronomers were puzzled by a so-called “tidal disruption event” (TDE), dubbed AT2018hyz, that had faded when it was first noticed three years earlier, only to unexpectedly reanimate and ...