Astronomers see first light flare from two distant black holes colliding. How a dark event become a bright affair. How a dark event become a bright affair. by Loren Grush. Jun 25, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black ...

Subtle gravitational rumbles from a collision of two black holes may have been accompanied by a flare of light about a month later, physicists report June 25 in Physical Review Letters.

Taken together, these two flares finally confirm that OJ 287 must be a double black hole system, wherein the smaller object regularly passes through the gassy disk of its larger neighbor.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The ...