The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

While the idea of sending a spacecraft to a black hole dozens of light-years from Earth might sound like something straight ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

If they're just hanging out in space, not doing anything, black holes are hard to spot, but astronomers are getting better at ...

The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...