Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational lensing, according to Durham University. Credit: Durham University ...

The ultramassive black hole in the galaxy cluster Abell 1201 packs a mass of 30 billion suns.

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this ...

Astronomers located an ultramassive black hole using a new technique called gravitational lensing.

Researchers were able to pinpoint the oldest black hole ever discovered that is believed to have been supermassive not long after the Big Bang.

Astronomers used gravitational lensing and supercomputers to identify the colossal black hole, which is among the largest ever found.

U.K. astronomers announced that they have discovered one of the largest black holes ever found, using gravitational lensing, supercomputer simulations and Hubble Telescope images.

Supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is spinning nearly as fast as it can, dragging the very fabric of space-time with it and shaping the heart of the Milky Way.

Researchers just found an ultramassive black hole—one of the biggest black holes ever discovered. Here are all the details.

Astronomers making use of a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing have discovered a black hole about 33 billion times the mass of the Sun — close to the upper limit of how large scientists ...