While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

This was a sign that the galaxy's sleeping black hole was waking from its slumber, according to the study published in the ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

What can astronomers learn from observing black holes that suddenly wake up? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Scientists had thought that quasi-periodic eruptions kick off when an object such as a star or small black hole wanders a bit too close to a supermassive black hole and gets tangled up in the material ...