Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a black hole that actually contribued to star formation, rather than demolishing them, in a dwarf galaxy 30 million light-years from Earth.

Based on the new findings, the researchers estimate that a mash-up between a black hole and a neutron star occurs about once a month within 1 billion light-years of Earth.

These black holes are between 100 and 1,000 times as massive as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way that sits just 26,000 light-years from Earth.

In October 2018, astronomers witnessed a small star being ripped to shreds and swallowed when it wandered too close to a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light years away from Earth ...

A smudge of light at the center — the flare from a dying star whose remnants are being swallowed by a black hole, suspended alone in the middle of the cosmic ocean. I smile and start planning ...

Astronomers have observed a distant black hole make a cosmic meal out of a doomed star, stretching it like taffy and shaping the leftovers into a cosmic donut.