One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...

The new black hole is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at centre of our Milky Way galaxy.

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Phoenix A, a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Phoenix Cluster, is one of the largest ever discovered, with an ...

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

The galaxy’s heart hides a cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang but could explain the mysterious ...

One of the first black holes ever imaged, M87*, located at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, continues to surprise astronomers with its behavior. New ...

The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...

Astronomers have reported a colossal find in a famous warped ring of light. Inside the galaxy that forms the Cosmic Horseshoe, researchers measured a black hole weighing 36 billion suns. The inner ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Small black holes making a meal out of companion stars are surprisingly messy eaters, astronomers using a Japanese space ...