A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at ...

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, ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

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

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Approximately 980 million light-years away from Earth, in the center of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 in the constellation Virgo, ...

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 Lorena Hernández-García.