Astronomers have reported an unusually high-energy event that may represent a rare form of black hole feeding. The transient, named EP250702a, was fir.

An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping apart a star.

A supermassive black hole roughly 660 million light-years from Earth has been caught firing off a blast of energy that dwarfs ...

On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose brightness varied rapidly during a routine sky survey. Its unusual signal ...

Occupying the core of the galaxy is a supermassive black hole designated as Sagittarius A*. It is famously among the dimmest in the universe. New observations reveal that in the past, it was more ...

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

Michael Rider’s first two collections didn’t scream at me—but they certainly stuck with me ...

Massive stars, reaching the end of their lives, turn into red supergiants and explode as supernovae, the brightness of which ...

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) organised open campus day to celebrate National Science Day observed on February 28 ...

Astronomers have detected the radio afterglow of a powerful space explosion that went unseen, possibly an orphan gamma-ray burst or a rare blackhole event 1.7 billion light-years away ...

The military-industrial complex is flourishing under Trump, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be optimistic about the nation’s ...