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

Data from the NSF-funded Zwicky Transient Facility pinpointed the energy source: J2245+3743, an active galactic nucleus 500 ...

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

Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

This week, researchers reported finding a spider megacity in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, and experts say that ...

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

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

Astronomers generally assume that active galaxies may shift and flicker, since their central supermassive black holes tend to feed in uneven and sometimes chaotic forms. Even with all that activity, ...

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