A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

Scientists Say They Have Just Discovered The Heaviest Black Hole — Weighing 36 Billion Times The Mass of The Sun Astronomers ...

This discovery situates the black hole at just about 1000 lightyears away from our planet—a cosmic stone’s throw in ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first optical detection of such an event. Support for LAist comes from.

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...

New evidence and properties of intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered with help from RIT researchers, as announced in a recent study.