A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...

In a baffling cosmic mystery, astronomers have reported a star that appeared to vanish without a trace. One night it was there, shining bright—and the next, it was gone. No explosion, no fading, no ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...

And that's what we can look at to see a black hole. So for example, in radio emission, where I study things, if there's gas or a star falling onto a supermassive black hole, as it's going and ...

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Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in the vicinity of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole ... offset from any star-forming regions ...

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