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

Shockingly, they discovered that the event occurred a staggering 8 billion light ... a vast gas cloud, presumed to be thousands of times larger than our sun, consumed by a massive black hole.

Q: If the gravity of a black hole is so strong that nothing can escape from it, not even light, how has the Hubble Space Telescope recorded images of gas jets ejected from black holes?

Despite residing in one of the galaxy's most extreme star-forming environments — just 200 light-years from the supermassive ...

In the most detailed look at that black hole ever undertaken, the astrophysicists observed incredible flares of light spewing out ... or swirling disks of hot gas and dust. Though they're not ...

An epic echo Shapiro currently pegs the light echo at about 150,000 to 250,000 light-years in diameter — about 1.5 to two times the width of the entire Milky Way galaxy. And if his estimates ...