Black holes are not limited to hearts of their galaxies and can wander through space, researchers claim Astronomers have ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" galaxy—two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for ...

This so-called tidal disruption event is the best way to spot these middle-mass black holes. A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant ...

You've heard of a supermassive black hole. Now, what about an "ultramassive" black hole? That descriptor is the only word researchers could use befitting a black hole recently spotted lurking far from ...

New research suggests that not all feeding massive black holes sit stably at the heart of their home galaxies. A team of ...

A tiny red speck in the distant universe may hold the key to one of the oldest cosmic mysteries. According to a new preprint ...

Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper limit of what is possible in the universe and is 10,000 times ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbor. The research, published in January in the ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other to form a larger structure. From Earth’s perspective, the junction of the ...

Something unusual may have risen from the ashes of an epic smashup. In the middle of a galaxy shaped like an infinity symbol — thought to be the result of two galaxies colliding — sits a supermassive ...