Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way apparently flared up dramatically relatively recently. An echo of ...

Astronomers have finally watched a black hole do something Albert Einstein only described on paper: twist the very fabric of ...

Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

As it faded, powerful winds emerged, blasting material into space at approximately 60,000 km per second, about one-fifth the ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

At that point, the flare was shining as bright as 10 trillion suns and carried the energy equivalent of a star completely transformed into radiation. Your neighbors may be driving up your utility bill ...

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