The Milky Way hosts its own supermassive black hole at its center known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “ay star”) that is more than four million times as massive as our sun. The tiniest members ...
Ripples from the collision between two black holes nine billion years ago reached Earth for the first time in 2017 Scientists have detected gravitational waves originating from the biggest known ...
Even though this black hole is bigger than most, the biggest black hole in the known universe is a lesser object called TON 618. Astronomers spotted an ultramassive black hole nearly 700 million ...
Here are the most monstrous black hole findings of the year. The known black holes that populate the universe fall into two types: those up to a few dozen times the mass of the sun and their ...