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

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Stellar black holes, these cosmic monsters born from the collapse of massive stars, play a key role in galaxy dynamics. A ...

Combined with the lack of detected light from the lens at late HST epochs, the BH nature of the lens is conclusively verified ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

As massive stars collapse into black holes ... or the merger of a neutron star and a black hole. With their initial study complete, the researchers are now hoping to run simulations of their ...

NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

The gravity of a black hole captures matter that get too close and can tear it apart. For example, matter from a captured star would be dispersed into a hot and bright rapidly spinning disc known ...

Unravelling puzzling behaviour The gravity of a black hole captures matter that gets too close and can rip it apart. The matter from a captured star, for example, would be spread into a hot ...

One was that the accretion disk was formed by gas getting sucked into the black hole, which only shoots out X-ray flares when a small celestial object such as a star crosses its path. "Simply ...