A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
Astronomers found a massive black hole that spent ages in a "quiet" phase when everything around it in the early universe ...
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act. The black hole in ...
Now, a team of scientists at MIT have observed another novelty: X-ray radiation is emanating in pulses from the black hole with increasing frequency. Between 2022 and 2024, these flashes shifted ...
The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...