Astronomers have witnessed something incredible: a supermassive black hole that was dormant for decades suddenly waking up ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 million times more massive than the sun. The idea is that Sgr A* scarfed down ...

"A black hole is so concentrated that it causes a little deep puncture in space/time. At the end of the puncture, you have a thing called a singularity where all known laws of nature break down.

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

While the idea of sending a spacecraft to a black hole dozens of light-years from Earth might sound like something straight ...

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black ...

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long time just how critical, as the information we had about early black ...

Scientists say humans could indeed enter a black hole to study it. Of course, the human in question couldn’t report their findings—or ever come back. The reason is that supermassive black ...

What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer. First, the good news: Black holes aren’t out to get us. But they do hold unfathomable mysteries.