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.”