APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

If you point your spaceship toward the constellation Leo, fire your thrusters, and travel about 5 billion light-years, you’ll find yourself in the vicinity of the Cosmic Horseshoe, home to what might ...

A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the ...

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 ...

Astronomers have detected the most distant and biggest black hole flare ever seen, the result of a black hole ripping apart ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed "Superman ...

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) black hole 10 billion light-years away, J2245+3743, made the biggest and brightest flare ever ...

"This is amongst the top 10 most massive black holes ever discovered, and quite possibly the most massive." About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...