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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...

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

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 ...