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

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

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Credit: SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds. The story begins with ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

For the first time, physicists have observed a “black hole triple” in space. This new system is about 8,000 light years away from Earth and is made up of a central black hole that is in the ...

Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds. The story begins with two black holes orbiting far from each other in long ...