The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

Astronomers reveal how two “forbidden” massive black holes merged, solving a cosmic mystery and refining stellar evolution ...

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) black hole 10 billion light-years away, J2245+3743, made the biggest and brightest flare ever ...

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.