Collisions between black holes can launch newly melded cosmic sinkholes at speeds up to nearly one-tenth the speed of light, researchers report August 18 in Physical Review Letters. Moving that fast — ...

You’d think a black hole with a mass of 160 million times that our Sun would be difficult to move — and you’d be right. Nonetheless, astronomers have spotted a potentially “renegade black hole” offset ...

Astronomers have found a possible supermassive black hole that is recoiling out of a distant galaxy at high speed. The black hole, visible with X-rays as a clear star, is not located in the center of ...

A black hole has been spotted recoiling from a mysterious slingshot effect, possibly from encounters with several other black holes, a new study has found. The exact cause of the black hole's kickback ...