Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Learn why a black hole is becoming active and why experts still can't explain the source of its regular, periodic pattern of X-ray energy flashes.

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it consumed little matter and was in a dormant state. But recently it suddenly lit ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...