At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of an "impossible" merger between two black holes so massive and fast-spinning that ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

Astronomers spotted a flaring black hole that may be consuming a star at least 30 times more massive than the sun. At its ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

Hubble’s new view of NGC 4102 exposes the soft glow of a supermassive black hole hidden behind dense gas. The galaxy’s delicate spiral structure contrasts with the quiet activity unfolding at its core ...

New evidence from the gravitational-wave event GW230814 shows that when two black holes merge, the horizon area of the ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new ...