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Most Luminous Black-Hole Flare on Record Traced to Star Torn Apart 10 Billion Light-Years Away

Researchers attribute the outburst to a massive star torn apart inside an active galactic nucleus, offering a rare look at black-hole feeding.

Record Black Hole Flare Points to Tidal Disruption of a Giant Star

New Framework Turns Black-Hole Shadows Into Tests of Gravity

Record Black Hole Flare Shone With the Light of 10 Trillion Suns From 10 Billion Light-Years Away

Twin Black-Hole Mergers Display Extreme Spins, Strengthen Einstein’s Theory, and Point to Second-Generation Origins

First Radio-Bright Tidal Disruption Event Found Outside a Galaxy’s Core Shows Record-Fast Flares

First Radio Image Shows Two Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting in Quasar OJ287

First Radio Image Resolves Two Supermassive Black Holes in Quasar OJ287

Citizen Scientists Find Most Distant, Most Powerful Odd Radio Circle With Twin Rings

JWST Studies Reveal Mixed ‘Little Red Dot’ Population as Extreme Object Spurs ‘Black Hole Star’ Test

VLT Interferometry Reweighs Distant Quasar’s Black Hole to About 1 Billion Suns

Chandra Spots Early-Universe Black Hole Growing Above Theoretical Limit

Wormhole Hypothesis Revives 2019 Wave Mystery as New Data Bolster Black‑Hole Physics

Chandra Finds Early Quasar’s Black Hole Growing Beyond the Eddington Limit

EHT Finds Magnetic Field Flip at M87* and Traces Jet Base in Multi‑Year Study

Astronomers Measure First Black-Hole Recoil, Tracing Newborn’s 3D Flight From 2019 Merger

UMass Study Predicts Strong Odds of Witnessing a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Within a Decade

JWST Survey Points to 'Black Hole Stars' as the Source of Early-Universe Red Dots

JWST Study Proposes ‘Black Hole Stars’ to Explain Mysterious Early‑Universe Red Dots

Peer-Reviewed GW250114 Analysis Confirms Kerr Black Holes and Hawking’s Area Law