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

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

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

A massive star was torn apart by a supermassive black hole, producing the most powerful and distant flare ever observed, ...

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

At its peak, 'Superman' was 30 times more luminous than any previously recorded black hole flare. The black hole involved is estimated to be 500 million times more massive than the Sun, while the ...

Auroras could be visible — especially in darker, rural areas — in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, New ...

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. Americans are bracing for chaos at major US airports today, with more flights set to be canceled in the coming hours due to ...

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...

For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope hint at an excess of "UB-bright" galaxies in the first 400 million years after ...

Scientists record the clearest black hole collision signal yet, confirming Stephen Hawking’s key prediction about black hole ...