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'Death by a thousand cuts': James Webb Space Telescope figures out how black hole murdered Pablo's Galaxy
"It points to a slow starvation rather than a single dramatic death blow."
Astronomers watch 2 supermassive black holes caught in a twisted dance with never-before-seen jet behavior
"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets."
Astronomers baffled by 'mysterious disruptor' with a mass of 1 million suns and a black hole for a heart
"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."
NASA X-ray spacecraft reveals the shockingly violent history of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
"Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this."
'Super star' being shredded by black hole releases as much energy as 400 billion suns
"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a star."
Event horizon hunt: A black hole word search
Hunt for key terms that define one of the universe's most mind-bending phenomena—from event horizons to singularities.
The biggest black hole breakthroughs of 2025
2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.
Mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts triggered by black holes shredding stars, scientists say. 'It's definitely not just an exploding star.'
"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion."
