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

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

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

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

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

It is the only X-ray telescope sensitive enough to detect the fainter X-ray background light between the bursts ... releases when it lights up and starts flashing." Unravelling puzzling behaviour The ...

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

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the ... sensitive enough to detect the fainter X-ray background light between the bursts. With XMM-Newton we could measure how ...

On the cover of his debut solo album, TV On The Radio (TVOTR) frontman Tunde Adebimpe is floating in the darkest of voids, ...

Lorde said, “Let there be music,” and there was music.

Scientists have observed a previously inactive supermassive black hole producing regular, powerful X-ray eruptions that ...