A distant supermassive black hole has unleashed a flare of light so powerful and long-lasting that it has defied every known ...

Astronomers spotted a flaring black hole that may be consuming a star at least 30 times more massive than the sun. At its ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a galaxy, but far from it. More amazingly, the event’s radio waves ...

A supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a supergiant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is acting far more strangely than anticipated. Since 2017, astronomers from the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Scientists at Stanford say they've made a breakthrough discovery about light and black holes that startled even seasoned astrophysicists. And their work appears to prove ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black holes—could harbor two black holes rather than one. That theory ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they had a cosmic oddity on their hands. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...