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

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 Virgo constellation, has ...

Astronomers call these flares "quasi-periodic eruptions," or QPEs ... "In most QPE systems the supermassive black hole likely shreds a passing star, creating a small disk very close to itself ...

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 ...

This was the start of the dream of KMT: The Krafla Magma Testbed, named for the volcanic system in Iceland. It’s a dream that ...

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 ...