A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter.

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

What can astronomers learn from observing black holes that suddenly wake up? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Now, astronomers are getting a close look at a black hole that is “waking up” and going from a dormant state to an active one as it starts chowing down on nearby matter. The black hole at the ...

QPEs are short-lived flaring events. And this is the first time we have observed such an event in a black hole that seems to be waking up,” lead author Lorena Hernández-García, a researcher at ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton is playing a crucial role in investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren ...

In fact, they often exhibit long periods of dormancy. Astronomers had never witnessed a black hole “wake up” in real time—until now. Researchers have spent the past few years watching a ...