From legendary trash talk to playing left-handed just for fun, the stories about Larry Bird are almost too crazy to believe. But former players confirm—they’re all real. Bird wasn’t just a great ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole eating a star. This happened far from the center of its galaxy. The event, called AT2024tvd, is 600 ...

Hubble spots a rogue black hole ripping a star outside its galaxy’s center in the first known offset TDE, led by Dr. Yuhan Yao's team.

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...

In a cosmic first, astronomers observed a supermassive black hole consuming a star. This happened outside the core of its host galaxy. The event, named AT2024tvd, occurred 600 million light-years away ...

Lurking 600 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole—which has the same mass as some 1 million suns—betrayed its presence when it was caught shredding and then devouring a poor ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

Black holes like this one may gorge for about five to 10 million years–then go dormant for 100 million. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 18, 2024 11:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit ...