Here’s how it works. Scientists scouring the cosmos for signs of a rare explosion may have stumbled upon something even more remarkable: a gargantuan black hole "switching on" in the early ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest black holes ever found — an ultramassive monster roughly 30 billion times the mass of the sun — using a space-time trick predicted by Albert ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

The first black hole image to ever be taken stunned the world three years ago, and scientists are excited for the next one. When the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team released its first-ever ...

At the centre of our galaxy lives a gargantuan black hole. It is as wide as our Sun but millions of times heavier. Its immense gravitational pull churns the interstellar dust and gas around it.

Two NASA space telescopes teamed up to scrutinize a distant galaxy and discovered something mind-boggling: a gargantuan black hole inside a galaxy that’s more than 13 billion years old.

The data also offer some hints about how some supermassive black holes manage to unleash gargantuan jets of particles traveling at near light-speed. “It’s truly remarkable, it’s almost ...

Fewer supermassive black holes may undergo growth spurts than astronomers had suspected. Every known large galaxy hosts a gargantuan black hole at its center. Some of those behemoths experience ...

more and more evidence of gargantuan black hole jets continued showing up. “When we first found the giant jets,” Oei, who was ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how the gargantuan black holes at the centres of galaxies can grow to be so large. One possible route is for smaller – but still extremely massive – black ...