The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter.

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

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

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

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

Now, astronomers are getting a close look at a black hole that is “waking up” and going from a dormant state to an active one as it starts chowing down on nearby matter. The black hole at the ...

QPEs are short-lived flaring events. And this is the first time we have observed such an event in a black hole that seems to be waking up,” lead author Lorena Hernández-García, a researcher at ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton is playing a crucial role in investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what scientists ...

In fact, they often exhibit long periods of dormancy. Astronomers had never witnessed a black hole “wake up” in real time—until now. Researchers have spent the past few years watching a ...