A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, private companies, and academic institutions are ...

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...

The origin and the central engine of GRBs have long been pending for identification. Now a joint observation by LEIA and ...

IFLScience traveled to CERN to get an exclusive insight into the crucial theory of particle physics, its limitations, and ...

Approximately 980 million light-years away from Earth, in the center of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 in the constellation Virgo, ...

At approximately 580 million miles from Earth, in the centre of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 in the constellation Virgo, an event ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...

Scientists have observed a previously inactive supermassive black hole producing regular, powerful X-ray eruptions that ...

Ansky was first seen erupting in 2019, with bursts of X-ray light from February 2024. These repeated at almost regular ...