Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by gravitational lensing. Weighing seven times the Sun, it bends light from ...

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 ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...

"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.

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a black hole drifting alone in space—without a companion star. This exciting discovery was made by a team at the Space Telescope ...

The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

and translate a solution back—an extremely powerful tool for physicists seeking to understand gravitational phenomena such as black holes. (Some problems are easier on the AdS side, while others ...

A new paper proposed by the researchers has said that dark matter may have contributed to the formation of giant black holes in the early universe. Gigantic black holes that also appeared in the ...

Strange X-ray pulses blasted out from a recently awakened monster black hole are the most powerful astronomers have seen, and may help explain how these cosmic behemoths emerge from their slumber.

In 1969, physicist Roger Penrose proposed that advanced civilizations might someday harness the immense energy swirling around spinning black holes. Over half a century later, physicist Jorge ...

In the video’s introduction, Cameron discussed the impromptu nature in which “Black Hole Sun” came about. Arriving late in the album sessions, the band didn’t have a chance to rehearse the song before ...