While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space ...

Scientists have built an optical device that behaves like black and white holes, absorbing or repelling light based on polarization. It could help us study cosmic phenomena – and power futuristic tech ...

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It is called a black hole, because it acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. According to the theory of general relativity, a black hole has no locally detectable features, but it ...

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said Friday.

"For years, astronomers have searched for a black hole in M83 without success." Scientists have long believed that monster-sized supermassive black holes lurk at the heart of all large galaxies.

Several years ago, members of the same research team reported the discovery of a mysterious “dark object” moving through the constellation Sagittarius, proposing it might be a lone black hole.

The device, reported in Advanced Photonics, functions as an optical black hole or optical white hole, and rests on a principle known as "coherent perfect absorption" of light waves.Dependent on ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles. Come too close to one, and you’d get sucked in by its ...