California scientists spotted the brightest flare ever recorded, shining with the light of 10 trillion suns, from a ...

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

Promising to put the national interest above ‘political expediency’, the chancellor declined to recommit to Labour’s ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

N obody does it better than supermassive black hole J2245+3743. It is a bright, active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a mass ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.