After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Theoretical models of stars suggest that the compactness of stellar cores does not increase ... They began by constructing a population model for black hole binary component masses including ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into such a tiny point gives black holes their powerful gravitational pull. Thousands of these stellar-mass black holes may lurk ...

But the team found that a low-mass white dwarf—a stellar remnant about ... the journal Nature. This model makes a key prediction, Masterson notes. If the black hole does have a white dwarf ...

But detections of gravitational waves —- perturbations of spacetime itself —- are one of the few ways to track both the mergers of massive stellar black holes and potentially even massive ...

Despite being cosmic monsters that shape the entire galaxies around them, supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun (and their more diminutive stellar-mass ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent An artist’s concept of a white ...

You can tell a lot about a human being's ancestry from their general characteristics. A child can have their father's eyes, ...

It's believed that a dead stellar remnant, or white dwarf, could be spinning precariously on the edge of the black hole, causing the explosions of high-energy light. “This would be the closest ...