A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

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Portuguese researchers predict that Europe's future space observatory will detect hundreds of thousands of supermassive black ...

The flare was first detected in 2018 by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in ...

Astronomers have documented the largest and most distant black flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole, ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

Auroras could be visible — especially in darker, rural areas — in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North ...

Black holes can get energy boosts by ‘snacking’, although their dish of choice is rather different from our own. Analysis ...

For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole looks like. But thanks to theoretical physics, we can ask ...

Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole — a fireworks show that was, at its peak, more than 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun — flared up as the ...