The flare is ongoing, meaning that the black hole is still actively consuming the star, like "a fish only halfway down the ...

In a remarkable display of cosmic power, astronomers have detected the most potent black hole flare ever recorded. This ...

Strong waves have killed three people on Spain's Canary Islands by pulling them into the Atlantic Ocean during a tidal surge ...

Astronomers have recorded the most luminous flare ever emitted by a black hole—an event so extreme it briefly outshone the ...

During the 1950s, the study of the cosmos was revolutionized with the introduction of radio astronomy. In the ensuing decades, astronomers detected numerous bright radio sources that they designated ...

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

California scientists spotted the brightest flare ever recorded, shining with the light of 10 trillion suns, from a ...

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

The BOAT – or Brightest of All Time, a record that has yet to be beaten – was a gamma-ray burst accompanying a supernova ...

Researchers have recorded the largest and most distant black hole flare to date, and the numbers around it are pretty ...

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