A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

It emits strong radiation straight into the cosmic abyss. The Ansky black hole, located in the Virgo constellation, has ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

It emits strong radiation straight into the cosmic abyss. The Ansky black hole, located in the constellation Virgo, has ...

Data reveals quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) of exceptional energy and duration. These still poorly understood phenomena could challenge current models of matter accretion by black holes. The ...

NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions Sep. 26, 2024 — In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch ...

The black hole now gives off powerful X-rays at nearly regular intervals. These outbursts are known as quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), and have been observed emitting from other black holes.

Strange X-ray pulses blasted out from a recently awakened monster black hole are the most powerful ... they were dubbed quasi periodic eruptions (QPEs). Since then, astronomers have discovered ...