Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

Stellar-mass black holes typically form after a star goes supernova and collapses. However, the discovery of the first-ever triple black hole system, V404 Cygni, complicates that picture. This black ...

Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different sized ...

There's evidence out there for the supernova model of black hole formation. This is when a dying star erupts in a colossal ...

Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into such a tiny point gives black holes their powerful gravitational pull. Thousands of these stellar-mass black holes may lurk ...

The black hole in the center of AT2019qiz is hurling the remains of the star, which it previously destroyed, at another star or possibly a smaller stellar-mass black hole orbiting it. This stellar ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the ...