Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

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

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

The black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728—a distant galaxy 300 million light-years away—was found ... study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The first bursts appeared in late ...

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light ... Now, astronomers are getting a close look at a black hole that is ...

Ansky was first seen erupting in 2019, with bursts of X-ray light from February 2024 ... event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole’s behaviour in real time, using ...

(European Space Agency via Courthouse News) (CN) - Astronomers have been left stunned by the unprecedented behavior of a supermassive black hole that has recently "woken up" after decades of dormancy, ...

They are objects so massive they warp space and time to a point that even light cannot escape their pull, making them invisible. In the past, astronomers ... black hole, you'll see radio flares ...

That makes them exceptionally difficult to spot in the blackness of space, where light is a huge factor in how we search for things. One way that astronomers search for black holes is called ...