At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

"Once you consider magnetic fields, you can actually explain the origins of this unique event." Scientists have gotten to the ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

In a cosmic spectacle of unprecedented scale, astronomers have recently detected the brightest black hole flare ever recorded ...

Pairs of black holes have been detected in the past through their gravitational effects, but until now, scientists have never ...

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...