“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with ...

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Black holes are mysterious objects, and scientists have a lot to learn about them. So much, in fact, that they didn't think ...

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

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

The explosion of a massive star locked in a deadly orbit with a black hole has been discovered with the help of artificial ...

Supermassive black holes might secretly be smashing particles at energies beyond our best labs, offering a new path to discover dark matter without building a giant collider.