A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

A supermassive black hole that scientists have nicknamed "Ansky" is now awake after a long dormant period, emitting powerful ...

A distant massive black hole erupted to life, releasing record-breaking X-ray flares in a stunning cosmic event.

They’re short-lived flaring events seen in X-ray light, and so far, they’ve only been spotted in a few black holes. What makes Ansky remarkable is that this is the first time such eruptions ...