A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black ...

Astronomers have revealed an ultramassive black hole with a mass of 36 billion times that of the Sun. This enormous black hole is located at the centre of a distant galaxy called LRG 3-757. The ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Temple chapter. I was the token Black girl for most of my life when I lived in predominantly white areas. In high school, I once ...

Bengaluru: To spot a black hole is tough and to find them in smaller galaxies is even more difficult. But that did not stop Dr Ragadeepika Pucha, a postdoctoral researcher of Indian origin at the ...

In an exclusive conversation with NDTV's Pallava Bagla, Professor Natarajan details the unknowns of dark energy, dark matter, and black holes. Dark Energy And Dark Matter "We know that the ...

A groundbreaking study has shown that black holes can exist without singularities, eliminating the need for exotic matter. The discovery, based on quantum gravity corrections, offers a more natural ...

The solution that Belinski, Khalatnikov and Lifschitz found, which came to be called the BKL solution after their initials, described what might happen in a messy, more realistic situation where black ...

Artist’s rendering of a black hole surrounded by a highly magnetized thin disk. Credit: Steven Burrows/Prasun Dhang, edited Black holes are more than just cosmic vacuum cleaners — they are powerful ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy may not be as voracious as the gas-gobbling monsters that astronomers have seen farther out in the Universe, but new findings from ...

It's well known that huge black holes exist at the center of galaxies, including our Milky Way. But their role in cosmic ray production wasn't clear. Listen to Story Scientists have wondered where ...