A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all thanks to the observing powers of the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

Astronomers estimate there may be as many as 100 million isolated black holes in our galaxy alone. Fortunately for us, space is big and it’s unlikely any of them will come our way anytime soon.

"Based on earlier observations, we knew this galaxy was in a quenched state: it's not forming many stars given its size, and we expect there is a link between the black hole and the end of star ...

The discovery of the Cosmic Horseshoe black hole came about somewhat serendipitously as researchers were studying dark matter distribution in a galaxy located a distant 5 billion light-years from ...

Ultramassive black hole found in Cosmic Horseshoe 5 billion light-years away The Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy is home to what a team of astronomers claim may be the most massive black hole ever detected ...

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 ...

The IMBH is on the outskirts of the host galaxy, NGC 6099, about 40,000 light-years from the galaxy's center. There is presumably a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core, which is currently ...

Certainly, every galaxy is capable of producing an enormous number — roughly a handful every century — of small black holes with masses of up to 100 or so times that of the sun.

The first wandering black hole ever discovered currently lies 5,000 light-years from Earth, so it should be much closer to our planet than Sagittarius A* (27,000 light-years).