What does it take to outshine 10 trillion suns? In the case of the cosmic flare nicknamed “Superman,” the answer is a ...

The flare is ongoing, meaning that the black hole is still actively consuming the star, like "a fish only halfway down the ...

Astronomers have recorded the most luminous flare ever emitted by a black hole—an event so extreme it briefly outshone the ...

During the 1950s, the study of the cosmos was revolutionized with the introduction of radio astronomy. In the ensuing decades, astronomers detected numerous bright radio sources that they designated ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

California scientists spotted the brightest flare ever recorded, shining with the light of 10 trillion suns, from a ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

The BOAT – or Brightest of All Time, a record that has yet to be beaten – was a gamma-ray burst accompanying a supernova ...

Researchers have recorded the largest and most distant black hole flare to date, and the numbers around it are pretty ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass ...