Black holes are among the most mysterious and powerful phenomena in the Universe, with the largest known example—TON 618—boasting a staggering 66 billion times the mass of our Sun. This ultramassive ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

The massive "Cosmic Horseshoe" galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our sun — one of the largest ever seen in the universe, a new study finds.

Your neighborhood black hole just got seriously upstaged. Astronomers have spotted a cosmic behemoth weighing in at 36 billion solar masses-roughly 10,000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*, the ...

You've heard the Soundgarden song, but how about a real Black Hole Sun collision? Most black holes are the remnants of ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the universe, more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole lies at the center of a ...

Primordial black holes that formed during the earliest moments of the universe could have swollen quickly to supermassive sizes, complex cosmological simulations have revealed. The discovery could ...