“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

If we do find a black hole that's close enough, the next challenge is getting there. For that, Bambi proposes the development ...

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

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

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

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

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

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

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 ...

They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.

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