A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For ...

The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

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NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Scientists observed a spinning black hole dragging space and time as it tore apart a star, confirming a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...