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 ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

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

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 ...

Astronomers have observed the most powerful black hole flare ever recorded. This discovery offers unprecedented insights into ...

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

N obody does it better than supermassive black hole J2245+3743. It is a bright, active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a mass ...