Black holes can get energy boosts by ‘snacking’, although their dish of choice is rather different from our own. Analysis ...

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) black hole 10 billion light-years away, J2245+3743, made the biggest and brightest flare ever ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...

This week, researchers reported finding a spider megacity in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, and experts say that ...

Astronomers have discovered the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, revealing that a black hole literally consumed a star from the inside out over the course of seven hours.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the universe, more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole lies at the center of a ...

Physicists have detected the biggest ever merger of colliding black holes. The discovery has major implications for researchers’ understanding of how such bodies grow in the Universe. “It’s super ...

Astronomers observed various kinds of radio signals from outer space, but a new wave stunned them. An international team of astronomers detected the first radio-bright tidal disruption event (TDE) ...