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NPR reports that astronomers have spotted a black hole finally "burping" out energy from a star that it swallowed back in 2018: How unusual is this? "Super unusual," Yvette Cendes, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and lead author of the paper, tells NPR. "Wev...

Astronomers were stunned to find that the black hole was emitting energy, two years after it pulled apart a star that had come too close.

Astronomers were stunned to find that the black hole was emitting energy, two years after it pulled apart a star that had come too close.

We've updated and expanded our "Guide to the Electromagnetic Spectrum"! Read on to learn about all the different flavors of light in the Universe, where this light comes from, and how we can detect it.

Black holes don’t gulp up everything at once, but one star’s last light is still gleaming three years later, puzzling astrophysicists.

Astronomers were stunned to find that the black hole was emitting energy, two years after it pulled apart a star that had come too close.

A black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy is blasting a neighboring galaxy with a jet of plasma moving at near light speed.

Astronomers were stunned to find that the black hole was emitting energy, two years after it pulled apart a star that had come too close.

Astronomers were stunned to find that the black hole was emitting energy, two years after it pulled apart a star that had come too close.

With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole spewing a fiery jet at another galaxy.