Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond.

A STAR-DESTROYING black hole is releasing a jet that’s so high-energy it’s one of the “brightest things ever detected in the universe”. Experts say that the black hole is ...

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

Astronomers suspect that the flare is a a burst of radiation that occurs when a black hole consumes a hapless star, ripping it apart and swallowing it. Astronomers are continuing to monitor the black ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Scientists are observing the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole flare thought to be the brightest and most distant discovered yet. Credit: Caltech / R. Hurt illustration A supermassive black hole tearing apart a ...

Runaway black holes have moved from theoretical oddity to observed reality, and the picture they paint is as unsettling as it is awe inspiring. Instead of sitting quietly at galactic centers, some of ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed surprising objects in the early Universe in recent years: the "Little Red Dots". These compact red dots, observed less than a billion years after the ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

A supermassive black hole tearing apart a star has set a new record for creating the brightest and most distant flare, shining with the light of 10 trillion suns at its peak. The black hole is roughly ...