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

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

A supermassive black hole that scientists have nicknamed "Ansky" is now awake after a long dormant period, emitting powerful X-ray flares.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

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

What can astronomers learn from observing black holes that suddenly wake up? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

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 ...

Black holes are known for their powerful gravity, which can pull in nearby gas, dust, and even stars. When this material gets ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...