A wandering black hole rips a star to shreds before swallowing it in a spectacular burst of radiation. The paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters by the University of California, ...

BERKELEY — A UC Berkeley astronomy research scientist working to find alien life, instead found two burglary suspects who were snooping around Campbell Hall after hours stealing textbooks ...

The message popped into UC Berkeley sophomore Varsha Sarveshwar’s inbox a few days before the start of her Introduction to General Astronomy course in the fall of her freshman year. It contained ...

The mushball theory — initially proposed in 2020 to explain the lack of mixing in Jupiter’s atmosphere — struck UC Berkeley graduate ... professor emerita of astronomy and Earth and ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the first time, direct evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

The mushball theory — initially proposed in 2020 to explain the lack of mixing in Jupiter’s atmosphere — struck UC Berkeley graduate student Chris Moeckel and his advisor, Imke de Pater, professor ...