Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...

What does it take to outshine 10 trillion suns? In the case of the cosmic flare nicknamed “Superman,” the answer is a ...

Bulging waves: artist’s impression of the gravitational waves given off by the merger of two supermassive black holes. ESA’s LISA space mission may be able to detect evidence of tidal distortions in ...

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 ...

Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star it destroyed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A new survey of 500,000 stars finds only 0.28% host close-in giants, showing how aging Sun-like stars drag their planets to destruction.

A new hypothesis offers a resolution rooted in a process more normally associated with Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io: tidal ...

Occurring on only a few dozen rivers around the world, tidal bores are as rare as they are intriguing. Michael Berry outlines the science behind this natural phenomenon and describes his sighting in ...

Black holes are some of the most enigmatic and extreme astronomical phenomena that we know about in the universe. But what what would happen if you fell into one? These cosmic bodies are regions of ...

We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies. If you track the motion of individual stars in the ultra-dense star cluster at the very center of the Milky Way you’ll ...

A new study led by researchers from Oxford University, Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in ...

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