New research suggests some "cosmic intersections" have failed "traffic lights" that deem black hole collisions almost ... and stability of migration traps. One implication is that we don’t ...

The astronomers used Gaia’s precise measurements to determine the size of the ... able to detect black hole mergers very far away, probing billions of galaxies. The second one is that these ...

Stellar black holes are dwarfed in size by the supermassive black holes inhabiting the center of most galaxies. One such black hole called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, is located at the heart of the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Belize’s Great Blue Hole, pictured here, is probably the most recognizable blue hole. The newly discovered blue hole off the coast of Mexico is ...

That will tell us about the wind that comes from stars like the one orbiting the black hole, and also about the physics of the black hole and how matter falls into it." Soon after the discovery of ...

No light can escape a black ... one of these primitive objects, which may have evolved differently from the way massive stars do today. This would explain how the black hole got so huge. Its size ...

“That will tell us about the wind that comes from stars like the one orbiting the black hole and also about the physics of the black hole and how matter falls into it.” Stellar black ...

Astronomers identified the largest stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, according to a study published on Tuesday. The black hole, named Gaia ...

This subterranean formation could potentially even offer a portal to both space and time like a subaquatic black hole. In 2012, scientists exploring blue holes in the Bahamas discovered bacteria ...

Researchers have found a blue hole they say is the deepest in the world—and they’ve yet to find where it bottoms out. The formation is the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay ...

According to Gaia astronomer Pasquale Panuzzo, BH3 was a completely serendipitous discovery, as no one was expecting to find a black hole so massive "lurking nearby, undetected so far." ...

"No one was expecting to find a high-mass black hole lurking nearby, undetected so far," says Gaia collaboration member Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, part of France ...