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 ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

As civilizations grow and mature, if humanity so far is anything to go by, they require a lot more energy to sustain ...

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

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

Something unexpected has come to life in the great darkness of space. In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a ...

After years of observation, researchers concluded that the sudden changes in the galaxy were likely caused by its black hole ...

Ansky was first seen erupting in 2019, with bursts of X-ray light from February 2024. These repeated at almost regular ...

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