This event marks the first real-time observation of a black hole transitioning from a quiescent to an active state.

In a surprising cosmic event, galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, has dramatically lit up after ...

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and Nikki Reed walked out onto a stage to take their places for a panel appearance to the sound of "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse (which played during the classic baseball scene in the first movie) ...

Astronomers watched as a galaxy with the forgettable name SDSS1335+0728 suddenly sprang to life when its massive black hole woke up.

The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a supermassive black hole. Normally, supermassive black holes live at the ...

Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...