Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas preached the virtues of civility to kick off an event aimed at bringing the community together.

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

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

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!

Ansky wakes up Then, in February 2024, a team led by Lorena Hernández-García, a researcher at the Valparaiso University ... to detect the fainter X-ray background light between the bursts.

Ansky wakes up Then, in February 2024, a team led by Lorena Hernández-García, a researcher at the Valparaiso University, Chile ... ray telescope sensitive enough to detect the fainter X-ray background ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.