QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

The black hole is located in galaxy QSO1, seemingly without any stars around it, which defies the long-held idea that black ...

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. In a new ...

If black holes weren’t terrifying enough, two especially large ones are merging together, experts have discovered. The resulting goliath – recently detected by scientists – is an enormous black hole ...

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ever. It could lead to evidence of an extremely rare type of black hole.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole NGC 3783 at speeds reaching up to 20% of the speed of light. During a ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

The star causing this flare is not yet fully devoured: "Like a fish only halfway down the whale's gullet." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...