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Scientists discovered what may be the universe’s brightest object on Monday — a quasar as luminous as 500 trillion suns. “Increasing in mass by the equivalent of one sun per day, the quasar is 17 ...

Astronomers spotted a flaring black hole that may be consuming a star at least 30 times more massive than the sun. At its ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.

What’s the rarest thing you can see in the universe?” Astronomers now have a contender: a supermassive black hole tearing ...

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) black hole 10 billion light-years away, J2245+3743, made the biggest and brightest flare ever ...

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

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research published in Nature Astronomy from an ...

Astronomers may have discovered a means to reveal supermassive black holes currently hidden from us across the universe. The promise comes after researchers, using observations by the Atacama Large ...

Stars are the original nuclear fusion reactors. As it evolves, a star continuously fuses hydrogen, helium, and—if it becomes big enough—heavier elements, releasing the energy created into space as ...

New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe. Dark energy ...

(CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.