We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black ...

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

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

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

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

Black holes are mysterious objects, and scientists have a lot to learn about them. So much, in fact, that they didn't think ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

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

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...