When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations, even in popular culture. They are objects so ...

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. But there's an open question in ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the early ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. These can tip the scales at many billions of times the sun’s mass, outweighing even entire galaxies.

While the idea of sending a spacecraft to a black hole dozens of light-years from Earth might sound like something straight out of Interstellar, an astrophysicist is bringing science fiction a little ...