Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars. These extreme nuclear transients, like the event nicknamed “Barbie,” ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a surprising alignment in the spin directions of ancient galaxies, challenging ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...