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 ...

The word iconic carries real weight; you cannot self‑declare it and expect the world to nod. It takes years of reruns, ...

"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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Scientists have been left stunned after stumbling across a lone black hole drifting through space. It's not every day astronomers come across an isolated black mass roaming the Milky Way. In fact, ...

Another idea, first proposed by respected physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose, is that we could extract energy from rotating black holes, also known as Kerr black holes, after Roy Kerr ...

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 ...

Accelerating x-ray flashes could come from the core of a dead star teetering near the event horizon. In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole ...

Scientists have been left baffled after spotting a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way, without any orbiting stars. Although this black hole is seven times more massive than our sun ...