Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...

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

A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope. Located over 12 million light-years ...

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it consumed little matter and was in a dormant state. But recently it suddenly lit ...

Thankfully, this version is just a safe toy model rather than using a real black hole in space, but as the physical principles are identical, studying it could help researchers better understand ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that appears ... an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," using X-ray space telescopes including ...

Photo from EHT Collaboration “This first image of light lensed immediately around the horizon of our own galaxy's supermassive black hole—and second black hole ... Students get the real-life ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, in the neighborhood of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) — our galaxy’s supermassive black hole — there is a population of massive young stars. Living in such an extreme ...