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 ...

What would a human see and feel while falling into a black hole? In this exclusive excerpt of his new book, "Facing Infinity, ...

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

Images of black holes are more than just fascinating visuals: they could serve as a “testing ground” for alternative theories of gravity in the ...

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

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 ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that's 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

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