Now, this same black hole is once again captivating scientists with an extraordinary gamma-ray flare that’s emitted photons ...

And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some 55 million light-years away — also let out a massive belch of gamma rays while scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

After years of observation, researchers concluded that the sudden changes in the galaxy were likely caused by its black hole ...

In these cases, the core of the star collapses to be a super-compressed, spinning black hole, which stirs and energize the wreckage around it to briefly emit a tremendous burst of gamma rays.

But since 2024, that black hole the astronomers nicknamed “Ansky” started producing X-ray bursts at regular intervals — almost as if Ansky was stretching, then going back to sleep for a bit, according ...

This offered a unique opportunity: It became possible to monitor a feasting and erupting supermassive black hole in real time. "The bursts of X-rays from Ansky are ten times longer and ten times ...