This is both the largest sample of dwarf galaxies with active black holes ever seen and the largest haul of elusive intermediate-mass black holes ever collected. The data could help scientists ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce an existential crisis. The latest, still-unnamed black hole is lurking ...

a system of two galaxies in the Leo constellation. This places the discovery as one of the largest black holes ever recorded in history.

making it one of the fastest-moving black holes we have ever seen. Astronomers have long puzzled over how the gargantuan black holes at the centres of galaxies can grow to be so large. One ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

making it — if the observations are confirmed — one of the biggest black holes ever spotted, as Live Science reports. To put that into perspective, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...