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

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light seen from a newly awakened black hole named Ansky. ESA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: ATG ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

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