A galaxy billions of light years from Earth houses what may be the most massive black hole in the universe, equivalent to ...

Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the ...

An ambitious plan to test extreme physics close to a black hole would involve a space probe weighing only a few grams, ...

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

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more.

What’s in the middle of the Milky Way? In our neck of the cosmos, everything revolves around a supermassive black hole.

In fact, only three factors can be used to define a black hole: its mass, its angular momentum and its electric charge. In ...

"Its special properties make the galaxy an ideal candidate for further research into merging black holes and the associated ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...