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 ...

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

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

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

It took place some 750 million light-years away, flaring into the detectors of the Zwicky Transient Facility on 7 July. At ...

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

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

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

The Webb telescope found that a far-off little red dot is the oldest known black hole, shrouded by gas that could help explain the ruby color.

We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black holes that we expect to exist from sources other than stars. They are no ...

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