If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Black holes are a dime a dozen in the cosmos. These destructive and terrifying cosmic ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called “sleeping giant,” named Gaia BH3 ...

and the most massive stellar mass black holes known in our galaxy tend to be up to 20 times the mass of the sun. Recently, though, astronomers have discovered a much larger stellar mass black hole ...

around their common centre of mass. Astronomers have accidentally discovered the most massive stellar black hole ever detected in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study published in Astronomy ...

which is building a 3D map of our galaxy, something unusual caught their attention: a wobbling star some 1,926 light-years away. The object’s curious motion indicated that a large black hole ...

Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy, thanks to the wobbling motion it induces on a companion star. This artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star ...

Just a few years ago, in a galaxy 848 million light-years away, astronomers witnessed something strange happen. The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of this galaxy was chugging along ...

The biggest stellar black hole ever seen in the Milky Way galaxy has just been discovered by a collaboration of astronomers — and it's the second-closest one to us, parked just 2,000 light-years ...

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“From these gravitational wave measurements, we should be expecting to see such black holes in our own galaxy, but we hadn’t until now,” says Seabroke. And this should just be the beginni ...