A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA collaboration with ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

A strange X-ray signal spotted decades ago may be the result of a star that got attacked by two black holes, one after the ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

Astronomers have observed an ultrafast outflow (UFO) forming immediately after a black hole for the first time in human ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, discovered a rapid explosion of matter around the supermassive black hole ...

Record-breaking ultrafast outflow (UFO) winds from a supermassive black hole flung matter across the universe close to the speed of light.

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...