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

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

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

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.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and ...

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