At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

A death-defying star survived destruction by a ravenous supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption event, and came back to ...

“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

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

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

The pair merged to create a single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

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