On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose ...

Learn how a shredded star triggered a black hole jet that evolved into a years-long energy surge that continues to intensify.

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole hides behind veils of dust, gas, and warped spacetime. Now a ...

Physicists have not yet watched a black hole literally blow itself apart, but they are closing in on the conditions where such an event might finally be seen. At the same time, telescopes are catching ...

Figure 1. Artist's impression of the Einstein Probe satellite catching an intermediate black hole, tearing apart a white ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that most of the light around the Circinus galaxy's central black hole is coming from hot dust feeding it rather than the material getting blasted out.

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have mapped where dust collects around a nearby supermassive black hole — and found that almost all of it sits in a compact ring feeding the object.

A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.

Astronomers tracked a star that slowly faded instead of exploding. The quiet disappearance may reveal a hidden way black holes are born.