Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

Black holes like the one shown in this illustration can grow astonishingly massive by feeding on immense amounts of matter. But just how big can they get? In the early 1960s astronomers discovered a ...

A black hole with a mass 70 times greater than the Sun was discovered, leaving scientists stunned. "Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy, according to most of the current ...

Black holes are among the most feared objects in the universe. These huge concentrations of tightly–packed matter, with a gravitational pull too strong for light to escape, can gobble up entire ...

Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole doing something that sounds like science fiction: racing through space at roughly 1,600 kilometers per second, based on recent James Webb Space ...

A new simulation could help solve one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries—how supermassive black holes formed so rapidly—along with a new one: What are the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) ...

Astronomers have discovered a super-size black hole harkening back to almost the dawn of creation. It's the farthest black hole ever found. A team led by the Carnegie Observatories' Eduardo Banados ...

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

We're on a black hole coverage roll this month, so here's another one: a supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe as "a ...

Physicists have detected the biggest ever merger of colliding black holes. The discovery has major implications for researchers’ understanding of how such bodies grow in the Universe. “It’s super ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

This doesn't sound much like a "supercomputer" to me. We have individual STORAGE nodes that are close to these specs. Supercomputers these days are usually clusters of nodes with specs like this or ...