I challenge any PC maker at CES 2026 to serve up a more eye-catching desktop design than the Asus ROG G1000, which comes ...

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, ...

Most black holes form when a massive star, at least 30 times the mass of our sun, exhausts its fuel and collapses into a singularity. The spherical volume of space surrounding this singularity defines ...

On the left is M87*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), 55 million light-years away. On the right is Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the black hole at the centre of our ...

Astronomers using two of the world’s best X-ray observatories have witnessed a dramatic and extremely fast outburst from a supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 In just hours, the ...

In a breakthrough, a team of computational astrophysicists has developed the most comprehensive model of luminous black hole accretion to date. The team used two of the world’s most powerful ...

Black holes are usually described as regions where gravity becomes so strong that nothing can escape, formed when massive stars collapse beyond a critical threshold. While this is the standard picture ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole flare thought to be the brightest and most distant discovered yet. Credit: Caltech / R. Hurt illustration A supermassive black hole tearing apart a ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...

Astronomers suspect that the flare is a a burst of radiation that occurs when a black hole consumes a hapless star, ripping it apart and swallowing it. Astronomers are continuing to monitor the black ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up ...