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 ...

Now, in the real world, astronomers have confirmed the existence of another wandering monstrosity, a rogue black hole cruising through our very own Milky Way Galaxy. In 2022 a team of astronomers ...

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.

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever seen before.

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 ...

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.

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Invisible Dark: Lone black holes passing through the galaxy should be a pretty common occurrence in the Milky Way, but they are notoriously hard to spot. According to recently published research ...

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.

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 ...

Discovery of extreme quasi-periodic eruptions in a newly accreting massive black hole. Nature Astronomy , 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02523-9 Cite This Page : ...