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

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

With the discovery of Infinity Galaxy, researchers believe they have found evidence of a direct collapse black hole by ...

The black hole is often referred to as Sgr A*, pronounced sadge ay star. Its mass is about 4 million times that of the sun, and it's about 27,000 light years from Earth, according to MIT.

"The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, has a mass of approximately four million times that of the Sun, but it only looks like a tiny dot from Earth ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

Immediately, a black hole forms in its core, which then sucks in the surrounding material, quickly plumping up to a mass of over 1,000, or even 10,000, times the mass of the sun.