New research poses this question in order to explore some of the most wonderous cosmic events. Black holes are bounded by outer barriers ... Sciences told Space.com. "In principle, extraction ...

By the 1960s, astronomers in New Jersey had detected ... Around these black holes—a term popularized in the 1960s by the American physicist John Wheeler—space-time as we know it breaks down.

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"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it consumed little matter and was in a dormant state. But recently it suddenly lit ...

A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole ... new image from the Very Large Telescope. The photo suggests that interstellar 'scraps' of matter are being strewn into space ...

This makes them an interesting, if exotic, candidate for dark matter, new research ... soak space-time around them, they can slowly but steadily emit radiation. This causes black holes to lose ...