At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

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

A distant black hole devoured a whole star and burped a massive light flare, as bright as 10 trillion suns. According to a ...

What is a black hole? Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, forming when a massive star collapses ...

Scientists have documented the most energetic flare ever observed emanating from a supermassive black hole, a cataclysmic ...

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

The strong gravity of the black hole (shown as a small black dot at the center of the disk on the right) pulls gas from the companion star (left). As the gas spirals inward, it forms a ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Scientists may have found "the most hellish place in the Universe" after discovering the fastest black hole on record. The team from the Australian National University, led by associate professor ...