The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

Research records wind blasting out at 19% speed of light as X-ray burst from supermassive black hole rapidly igniting ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

For the first time, astronomers have caught the moment when a supermassive black hole flare triggers a mighty wind blasting ...

Supermassive black holes are complex beasts. When abundant material reaches them, they can become active. The process of ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...