A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns.

The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

A cosmic explosion known as GRB 250702B is by far the longest gamma-ray burst astronomers have ever seen—if it’s even one at ...

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

The BOAT – or Brightest of All Time, a record that has yet to be beaten – was a gamma-ray burst accompanying a supernova ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With ...

Black holes are considered cosmic gluttons, from which not even light can escape. That is also why the images of black holes ...

The researchers said the most likely explanation for the flare is a large star being pulled into the black hole. As material from the ill-fated star falls inward, it causes a flare of energy when it r ...

Sources from Associated Press say that scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that ...

Researchers have recorded the largest and most distant black hole flare to date, and the numbers around it are pretty ...