Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

The Explosion: A Spectacle of Energy The recent explosion from M87 is nothing short of spectacular. Jets of material, traveling at nearly the speed of light, were ejected from the black hole‘s ...

When a huge collaboration directed telescopes around the world to the heart of galaxy M87 in 2018 in an ultimately successful effort to capture detail of its supermassive black hole, they also ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The first black hole ever photographed is still surprising researchers. Immortalized by the Event ...

If observations carry on indicating that far under half of supermassive black holes are hidden, it could lead to an explosion of new ideas about the role these objects play in shaping galaxies.

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this supermassive black hole feasts upon.

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of supermassive black holes like never before.

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

rightarrow{neutron~star,~or~a~black~hole~(depending~on~size)}\) After the main sequence period, they expand and become red super giants. This is followed by an explosion in which the outer layers ...

In the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, astronomers spotted the largest explosion in the universe consisting of energy equal to a ...