QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape. Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.

Why they're black: Their gravitational pull is so extreme that even light can't escape Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest known object in the universe, and it’s a quasar powered by the fastest-growing black hole on record, according to a new study. Initially classified as a star, ...

The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team ...

NASA's X-ray space telescope Chandra spotted the cosmic collision from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astronomers suspect that in the first second after the universe formed, the very first black holes also formed. These tiny though profoundly dense objects — think of an atom-sized particle wielding ...

Philip Wiseman works at the University of Southampton and is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever ...

An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth's orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 ...