A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

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

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

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Something unexpected has come to life in the great darkness of space. In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a ...

QPEs are thought to result from interactions within a black hole’s accretion disc, a fast-spinning disc of hot matter formed from gas or debris pulled toward the event horizon. Previous QPEs ...

2024 — Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

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

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...