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

The oldest known quasar existed ... the first few seconds of the Big Bang are so intense that the cosmos may have directly produced innumerable small black holes that formed through the frothing ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

The Milky Way hosts its own supermassive black hole at its center known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced ... soon after the universe formed with the big bang, some 13.7 billion years ago, and ...

Space.com was on duty all year to bring you the major developments in the science of the universe's most fascinating entities: black holes. Our fascination with black holes is pretty ...

The known black holes that populate the universe fall into ... the black hole as it appeared just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, and it was gobbling material 40 times faster than its ...

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 ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information. That ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black ... making it the largest recorded stellar black hole in the Milky Way ...