Astronomers think there could be as many as 100 million black holes in our galaxy, most with a similar mass to our Sun, but ...

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

The team revisited data from an object first spotted years ago, using updated observations to finally confirm its identity, ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...

In this environment, Mumpower’s team suggest that energetic photons in a jet collide with protons to create a neutron and a ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

Indian astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system designated SXP 138. Results of the NuSTAR observations, published ...

A new discovery has surfaced, wherein the first-ever solitary black hole has been revealed in the Sagittarius constellation.