The fact is, however, that the mass of black holes varies greatly out in the vast universe, and astronomers have recently discovered what they believe may be the biggest one ever found. They estimate ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by scientists who managed ...

The GWTC 4.0 catalog records 128 new gravitational wave signals, revealing mergers of black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO.

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low ranks as the largest negative "gravity hole" anomaly on Earth, which is why the “thumbprint” jumps ...

Black holes like the one shown in this illustration can grow astonishingly massive by feeding on immense amounts of matter. But just how big can they get? In the early 1960s astronomers discovered a ...

Researchers believe the 'ultramassive' black hole is big enough to be the largest of its kind ever detected. Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light ...

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way—has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This blue horseshoe is a distant galaxy magnified and distorted by the strong gravitational pull ...