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

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

A ‘selfie’ taken during Webb’s testing on Earth. Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the ...

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

Located only 56 million light-years away in Ursa Major, NGC 4102 gives astronomers a nearby target to study how these active cores impact their host galaxies.

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got ...

NASA confirms water`s chemical signature on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a discovery that could reveal secrets of distant ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Hawaii, marks ...

In an unprecedented leap forward in our understanding of the universe’s origins, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has potentially identified the earliest galaxy ever observed. This galaxy ...