A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

Albornoz Quintero’s attorney John Dutton believes the government has removed him to CECOT as an “alien enemy” on the basis of ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

A black hole in a distant galaxy has kept astronomers hooked to its quasiperiodic eruption activity, which is not a regular phenomenon.

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...

Ansky was first seen erupting in 2019, with bursts of X-ray light from February 2024. These repeated at almost regular ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...