Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical).Authors David Parkinson Research ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Hypothetically, black hole masses can range all the way from ... an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and an adjunct scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

At the center of a black hole lies the singularity—a point where ... Do you have a question about astronomy? Let us know via [email protected]. Miyoshi, M., Kato, Y., & Makino, J.

Another star has now been discovered in a system of star and black hole that has been known for years. It is a novelty that raises another question. Almost by chance, a research team from the ...