Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole — a fireworks show that was, at its peak, more than 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun — flared up as the ...
"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...
A balloon-borne telescope has captured one of the most precise glimpses yet of the chaotic environment around a black hole.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
A black hole that was eaten by a star seems to have gotten revenge by consuming the star from the inside, producing a gamma-ray burst spotted about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The burst, called ...
Active galactic nucleus (AGN) black hole 10 billion light-years away, J2245+3743, made the biggest and brightest flare ever ...
When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were witnessing something special. The cosmic flash GRB 250702B was no ...