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

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at ...

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

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

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

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 ...

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Learn why a black hole is becoming active and why experts still can't explain the source of its regular, periodic pattern of ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...

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 ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.