Tidal disruption events occur when a black hole consumes a hapless star, ripping it apart an swallowing it in a powerful burst of radiation. The newly discovered supermassive black hole ...

From Boring to Bursting: Giant Black Hole Awakens Apr. 11, 2025 — Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching ...

After decades of inactivity, the black hole at the galaxy's heart burst with light. Now, the cosmic monster appears to be doing something that is forcing astronomers to re-evaluate their ...

Scientists have been left baffled after spotting a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way, without any orbiting stars. Although this black hole is seven times more massive than our sun ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a supermassive black hole that is not at the center of its galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Yuhan Yao / Joseph DePasquale Using NASA's Hubble ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space ...

In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a once-quiet black hole has woken up. Astronomers became aware of this galaxy in the Virgo constellation when it abruptly began to light up in ...

Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully ...

An enormous black hole in the early universe is much bigger than it should be for its age, based on what we know about black hole formation. So could there be another way to make black holes?

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) and infrared data from NASA's James ...