What’s the rarest thing you can see in the universe?” Astronomers now have a contender: a supermassive black hole tearing apart a colossal star and unleashing a flare so luminous it outshines 10 ...

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

A CHINESE Martian orbiter has observed and photographed a rare interstellar comet speeding through the solar system, according to the China National Space Administration.

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

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

A massive star was torn apart by a supermassive black hole, producing the most powerful and distant flare ever observed, ...

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

The flare was first detected in 2018 by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in ...

The orbiter, which is part of the nation's ongoing Tianwen 1 mission for Mars exploration, took the images of the comet, ...

This combo diagram illustrates the relative positions of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and the orbiter of China's Mars ...

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, ...

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