A supermassive black hole has astonished astronomers after it was observed blasting out powerful winds raging at roughly one-fifth the speed of light. Two X-ray observatories, the European Space ...

A distant black hole devoured a whole star and burped a massive light flare, as bright as 10 trillion suns. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the cosmic outburst ...

A giant star that seems to have wandered too close to an even bigger black hole may have been shredded and devoured in a cosmic meal that produced the most powerful flare of its kind ever seen. At ...

Astronomers have discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts come from binary star systems, not lone stars. FRB 220529A’s unusual signal reveals how magnetars and plasma flares create cosmic ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a cosmic outburst with the light of 10 trillion suns, according to a new study. The black hole flare, as the phenomenon is ...

Two bright, short-lived flares from accreting white dwarfs have been detected near the Milky Way’s core by the South Pole ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter discovered cascading magnetic avalanches on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares and particle storms ...

Cosmic belch: Black Hole devouring star may have released largest energy flare ever seen This colossal black hole—500 million times the mass of our sun—unleashed a flare 10 trillion times brighter ...