They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A new discovery has surfaced, wherein the first-ever solitary black hole has been revealed in the Sagittarius constellation.

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern ...

"We succeeded in obtaining high-resolution maps of the recombination lines of hydrogen, which indicate the activity of star formation," Rhythm ... mass of our sun). As the black holes grow ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

They found that the galaxy has an enormous supermassive black hole at its core—weighing in at a whopping billion times the mass of the sun—firing off radio jets that are among the largest ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory just spotted a massive hole on the sun called a coronal hole. The hole appears black because it's cooler than its surroundings and is responsible for high-speed ...

used ultra-high-resolution observations to study the environment surrounding a supermassive black hole more than a billion times the mass of the sun. Study co-author Dr. Takafumi Tsukui ...

Your browser does not support the video element. A giant, black region of the sun — called a coronal hole — was spotted on Monday by NASA's Solar Dynamics ...