Scientists may have solved the mystery of an "impossible" merger between two black holes so massive and fast-spinning that ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

Learn more about the images advanced telescopes could take of black holes and how they could back up Einstein’s general ...

What is a black hole? Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, forming when a massive star collapses ...

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers spotted a flaring black hole that may be consuming a star at least 30 times more massive than the sun. At its ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...