Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — offering for the first time evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Astronomers have concluded that the first candidate for a 'solo black hole,' which was discovered in 2022 and caused quite a stir, is definitely a solo stellar-mass black hole, based on new ...

Some thought it was a stellar-mass black hole, while others thought it might be a less massive neutron star. Prior to the discovery, every known black hole was gravitationally associated with a ...

What is a black hole?Well, the name is actually a little misleading because black holes aren't actually holes. They're ...

The discovery made headlines three years ago because all previously known stellar-mass black holes ... than three times the sun’s mass, indicating a black hole rather than a neutron star.

A stellar mass black hole is a type of black hole that forms from the gravitational collapse of a massive star at the end of its life cycle. These black holes typically have masses ranging from ...