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

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.

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

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 ...

In terms of human lifespans, this is like having your prognosis of 50 years being cut down to less than a trillionth of a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Previous studies that didn’t factor Hawking radiation into their equations have put a white dwarf’s lifespan at 10¹¹⁰⁰ years.