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

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

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

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

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

Stellar black holes are born from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives, weighing from 3 to 50 times the mass of the Sun. When a star exhausts its fuel, it explodes in a ...

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

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

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 ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...