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

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

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars ...

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared.

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 ...

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 ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole traveling through space by itself. The researchers initially spotted this ...

enabling telescopes to ‘see’ the black hole in detail. It’s not just images that allow us to experience black holes though. NASA has produced a set of sonifications of black holes ...

Astrophysicists have proposed a new theoretical maximum lifespan for the universe, which suggests that dead stars are ...