Researchers have detected a black hole consuming a massive star, marking the largest burst of light from a black hole ever observed.

Researchers have recorded the largest and most distant black hole flare to date, and the numbers around it are pretty ...

Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology have recorded the most powerful radiation ...

Astronomers have observed an unprecedented flare from a black hole located in the AGN J2245+3743, 10 billion light-years away ...

The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

A 30-solar-mass star torn apart in a galaxy 10 billion light-years away may rewrite what we know about black holes.

It’s not often that a black hole outshines 10 trillion suns, but when it does, the universe notices-and so do the astronomers. The most luminous black hole flare ever recorded has burst from the ...

Scientists have detected the biggest black hole flare ever seen, radiating with the staggering power of 10 trillion suns.