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

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

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

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

Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...

These flashes are called quasi-periodic eruptions, or QPEs. They’re short-lived flaring events seen in X-ray light, and so far, they’ve only been spotted in a few black holes. What makes Ansky ...

The black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728—a distant galaxy 300 million light-years away—was found to have produced flashes of light known as quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs). These are ...

But in February 2024, SDSS1335+0728 flared up again with bursts of X-ray emissions at regular intervals, an example of seldom-observed quasiperiodic eruptions, in which a supermassive black hole ...

This phenomenon is known as a quasiperiodic eruption, or QPE. QPEs are short-lived flaring events. And this is the first time we have observed such an event in a black hole that seems to be waking ...

This phenomenon is known as a quasiperiodic eruption, or QPE. QPEs are short-lived flaring events. And this is the first time we have observed such an event in a black hole that seems to be waking ...