Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.

Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable 'burping' bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same. When you purchase ...

It’s fairly common knowledge that black holes can gobble up stars — but until recently, it was much rarer to hear about them “spewing out” material years later. In a press release, researchers from ...

Black holes actually burp up material when they eat stars, previous observations have found. But, what scientists didn't expect was to find a black hole that consumed a star three years before ...

In an interview with Live Science, Yvette Cendes, a research associate at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the study, described black holes as "messy eaters," ...

Astronomers say that for the first time ever, they've spotted a black hole "burping" out stellar remains years after it devoured a small star. The star, which scientists say was only one-tenth the ...

Tidal disruption events occur when a black hole gobbles up a star, sending out a flash of electromagnetic radiation detectable by telescopes. In 2018, scientists discovered that one such TDE appeared ...

A team of scientists has unveiled the secret to a burping black hole with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The new study reveals new information about mysterious radio bubbles surrounding a ...

Was Einstein smarter than a sixth-grader? When it came to black holes, maybe not. For much of the 20th century, astronomers and physicists were unsure about whether black holes — which were predicted ...

A massive black hole that is spewing X-rays and locked in a tight orbital dance around a huge, dim star finally has a good origins story. Unlike binary set-ups that result when a giant star absorbs ...

Up to half of the black holes that devour stars "burp up" their stellar remains years later. Astronomers made the discovery after spending years watching black holes involved in tidal disruption ...