The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...

As civilizations grow and mature, if humanity so far is anything to go by, they require a lot more energy to sustain ...

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

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

A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

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 ...

After decades of inactivity, the black hole at the galaxy's heart burst with light. Now, the cosmic monster appears to be doing something that is forcing astronomers to re-evaluate their ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first lone black hole is located in the Sagittarius Constellation No star is orbiting the newly discovered black hole The black hole is as big as seven times the ...

Earth rotates, the Sun rotates, the Milky Way rotates – and a new model suggests the entire Universe could be rotating.