New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

A geometric measurement of the distance to a nearby galaxy implies a larger mass for its central black hole than previously calculated, and a consequent increase for most other masses of such ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Supermassive black holes are some of the densest objects found within our universe ...

Sagittarius A* is spinning near top speed with its rotation axis pointing towards Earth. Event Horizon black hole project executed over 12 million computing jobs using distributed computing.

And for supermassive black holes, their mass alone means they have an extremely strong gravitational pull. This is the case for our own Milky Way’s black hole, called Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* ...