Three scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand black holes. Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were announced as this year's winners at a ...

Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth. It's about 1,000 light-years away, or roughly 9.5 thousand, million, million km, in the Constellation Telescopium.

At 400 million times the mass of our Sun, the black hole is so big, it's one of the most massive ones ever discovered by the telescope at that point in the universe's history. However, despite its ...

Notable among them are devices capable of generating acoustic black holes (ABH) continuously slowing ... "Our meta-silencer ...