The flares are common in supermassive black holes and have been seen before, says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University who led the study.

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human "heartbeat." Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon.

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ENTs, the cosmic explosions are unprecedented in their intensity.

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...