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

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

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 ...

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

"In principle, extraction is possible, and it could be a clean and efficient solution to the complex energy problems we will ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...

So the first black hole discovered called Gaia Black Hole 1, or Gaia BH1 for short, it basically has a stellar companion about the mass of our sun, so a very sun-like star, that they noticed it ...

Study co-author Dr. Takafumi Tsukui, from ANU, said the discovery ... for the first time, the heating mechanisms affecting gas within just a few hundred light years of the black hole.

Black holes are also unlike anything found on Earth or in the solar system ... "Lense-Thirring effect," named after the physicists who first proposed it, Josef Lense and Hans Thirring.

In an interview with ThePrint, physicist Yogendra Narain Srivastava discusses his radical new theory of black holes and a ...