Data from the NSF-funded Zwicky Transient Facility pinpointed the energy source: J2245+3743, an active galactic nucleus 500 ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass ...

Astronomers spotted a flaring black hole that may be consuming a star at least 30 times more massive than the sun. At its ...

Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently caused when ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.

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

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

Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Their detectors captured the gravitational waves created by the violent crash of two immense black ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new ...