Black hole in distant galaxy awakens in real time A galaxy has grown brighter for over four years. It's the first time the awakening of a massive black hole has been observed in real time.

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton is playing a crucial role in investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange ...

Artist’s impression of the accretion disc around the massive black hole Ansky and its interaction with a small celestial object ...

For decades, scientists have known black holes often come in pairs. These binary systems feature a black hole locked in a gravitational dance with a nearby object—usually a star, neutron star ...

This is what it looks like when a black hole awakens Astronomers say a previously “inactive” galaxy lit up as the massive black hole at its center started to feast on gas and dust, creating a ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

Over the past five years, the galaxy's nucleus has gone from serene to surging with energetic swirls, suggesting the emergence of a gigantic black hole.

Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a black hole in the act of devouring a star, ripping it apart and creating a huge burst of radiation.

Supermassive black hole found only half a billion years after Big Bang There just isn't time for something that big to grow from a supernova remnant.

But there is no evidence the Large Hadron Collider created a black hole in 2012 that ended reality. CERN has never said it created a black hole with the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.

Supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is spinning nearly as fast as it can, dragging the very fabric of space-time with it and shaping the heart of the Milky Way.

A team of international experts, renowned for debunking several black hole discoveries, have found a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to our own. The ...