QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. In a new ...

If black holes weren’t terrifying enough, two especially large ones are merging together, experts have discovered. The resulting goliath – recently detected by scientists – is an enormous black hole ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times ...

"This is like a cosmic lighthouse lit by a wandering black hole." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New research suggests that not ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...