As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

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

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

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

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

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

The black hole in question is a monster 6.5 billion times as massive as the sun, and lies in the center of an enormous elliptical galaxy, Messier 87, about 55 million light-years away in the ...

Black holes, arguably the strangest objects in the known universe, are notoriously difficult to detect. Scientists from Johns Hopkins University theorize that objects, such as a hypothetical ...

There are pods of whales and gaggles of geese. Now astronomers are wondering which plural term would best suit the most enigmatic entity in the cosmos. By Dennis Overbye What do you call a black ...

UHZ1's black hole weighs about 40 million solar masses. ... If they cool off too quickly, then instead of collapsing as a monolithic entity, they fragment into many smaller pockets, ...

Einstein's theory of relativity say black holes are 'bald', but a new tweak to his research may give the mysterious objects their long-sought 'hair.' ...