With monster ultramassive black holes like Phoenix A and Ton 618 out there, you might well wonder if there is a limit to just how big a black hole can get. You may like ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv ...

Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster, located 5.9 billion light-years away in the constellation Phoenix.

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

Fast facts about giant black hole at center of Milky Way. The University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel called the Milk Way's black hole "the gentle giant in the center of our galaxy" while announcing ...

European scientists say they have discovered the biggest stellar black hole yet in the Milky Way, less than 2,000 light-years from Earth. The dormant black hole known as Gaia BH3 has a mass 33 ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

The oldest known black hole — a 13.2 billion-year-old ‘behemoth’ — has been discovered by scientists. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory spent the past year ...

It's home to a monster black hole The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...