Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

A supermassive black hole has baffled scientists after it was spotted 'flashing' in deep space. Astronomers say they have ...

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

Feeding supermassive black holes are more common in the cosmos than previously suspected. What could possibly hide such ...

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...