Recently, scientists confirmed the existence of one such “runaway” black hole. The object, called OGLE-2011-BLG-0462, is an isolated stellar mass black hole that was detected ...

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

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the ...