A newly published study in The Astrophysical Journal has revealed the presence of a previously undetected supermassive black ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

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

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

Artist's rendering of a supernova explosion, inset with a spectrum graph from Chandra ... They found that the progenitor of the black hole had a mass of 25 Suns, dwarfing its companion star. This ...

The mass remains the same, however, making neutron stars some of the most dense objects in the universe. With the discovery of the pulsar, the idea of Black Holes being real objects began to take ...

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 ...

An artist’s impression of a stellar-mass black hole similar to the one inside Ansky. Credit: European Space Agency, NASA and Felix Mirabel (the French Atomic Energy Commission & the Institute ...