A ski day at Snow King Mountain is the perfect addition to any Jackson Hole itinerary. Located just at the edge of Jackson, ...

The black hole appears far too massive for its host galaxy, placing it in a rare category of “overmassive” black holes.

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Black hole science in 2025 did not advance in gentle increments. It lurched forward in giant steps, from record shattering ...

Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a ...

A strange X-ray signal spotted decades ago may be the result of a star that got attacked by two black holes, one after the other. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...

Black holes can get energy boosts by ‘snacking’, although their dish of choice is rather different from our own. Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole ...

Astronomers suspect that the flare is a a burst of radiation that occurs when a black hole consumes a hapless star, ripping it apart and swallowing it. Astronomers are continuing to monitor the black ...

A giant star that seems to have wandered too close to an even bigger black hole may have been shredded and devoured in a cosmic meal that produced the most powerful flare of its kind ever seen. At ...

It was a “light” meal for this star destroyer. A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the light of a trillion suns, ...

Nov. 4 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of an enormous star. The flare is 30 times more powerful than ...