Astronomers have uncovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, hidden ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

Scientists have tapped into gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics to confirm the existence of a black hole with 36 ...

The binary black holes in the universe are already astonishing enough, but researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical ...

Theoretically, there's no limit to how massive a black hole could grow. In practical terms, other constraints, such as the ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), part of the Chinese Academy of ...

Newly formed black holes ring out a strange, pure music, and soon we may be able to experience it If mature black holes had personalities, they would be extremely introverted. They don't let anything ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

An interstellar mission to a black hole may sound impossibly bold, yet a new concept by astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan ...

The technology is speculative — and the costs astronomical — but an astrophysicist suggests we're not far from sending the world's smallest spacecraft to achieve the biggest mission in modern physics.

A renowned theoretical physicist is proposing the possibility of sending tiny spacecraft to the nearest black hole to Earth ...

Astronomers have uncovered a black hole in the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, potentially the most massive ever detected, dwarfing ...