Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

Researchers have detected a black hole consuming a massive star, marking the largest burst of light from a black hole ever observed.

N obody does it better than supermassive black hole J2245+3743. It is a bright, active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a mass ...

A 30-solar-mass star torn apart in a galaxy 10 billion light-years away may rewrite what we know about black holes.

Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

Researchers have recorded the largest and most distant black hole flare to date, and the numbers around it are pretty ...