During 2024, onlookers observed a startling sight on China's Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the "matrix tide," this complex wave pattern was caused by the river's famed ...

A new cosmic crime scene reconstruction tells the full story of a star ripped apart by a ravenous black hole, revealing a previously unknown aspect of these tidal disruption events. When you purchase ...

Like ocean surf smashing on a sandy beach, enormous waves of plasma may crash onto the surface of one massive star. The star is part of a pair, stretched and pulled by its companion’s gravity. That ...

Astronomers recently used computer simulations to study the rise and fall of gargantuan tides on a distant massive star. 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, MACHO 80.7443.1718 is ...