"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new ...

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

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a black hole. It was first spotted in 2018 by a camera at the Palomar Observatory in California.

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

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

Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently caused when ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...