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.

V404 Cygni, one of the first confirmed black holes, is actually part of a triple star system, a surprising configuration that ...

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 ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a black hole drifting alone in space—without a companion star ...

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

This paper reports the discovery of a high-velocity star J07 ejected from globular cluster M15 approximately 21 million years ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

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

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...