While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

Researchers have identified a rogue black hole, marking the first time such an isolated object has been confirmed in deep ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

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 ...

What if everything we know—the stars, the galaxies, the expanding fabric of space-time—isn’t floating in a limitless void, but instead exists inside a black hole? It may sound like a work of ...

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

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 ...

They suggested it might be a lone black hole. Shortly thereafter, a second research team challenged that result, suggesting it was more likely a neutron star. After continuing to study the object ...