The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen — at 23 million light-years in length, they are as ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

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 ...

Gravitational wave observations have revolutionized our understanding of black holes, revealing crucial details about their ...

Astronomers are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope can help them decode elusive origins of black hole jets.

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 ...

Furthermore, black holes’ influence can extend far beyond the galaxies in which they reside. Last year, a team of astrophysicists identified the largest-known black hole jets—streams of ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black ...