Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, ... An illustration of a Kerr black hole dragging space around with it, the so-called "lense-thirring effect" ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...