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

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

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.

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...

A woman was reportedly jolted awake by the sound of an explosion and the smell of smoke. When she got up to see what the noise was, she heard tires screeching and found a hole in her front door and ...

Charles Kellar was a middle-aged New York attorney with a family, an established law practice and a portfolio of investment ...

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.

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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.

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...