Recently, the Gaia collaboration discovered the most massive black hole that originated from the collapse of a star in the Milky Way galaxy.
But how supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times more massive than the sun, form is even more elusive than ...
The opening, known as the Maud Rise Polynya is the biggest of its kind in the past 40 years and occurred due to a combination of conditions.
Milky Way's most monstrous stellar-mass black hole is sleeping giant lurking close to Earth (Video ... are falling into has a ...
"Our results imply that in the early universe, supermassive black holes might have gained their mass before their host ...
A giant hole appeared on the Sun’s surface this weekend, blasting solar winds towards Earth – or did it? Yes and no. The phenomenon, officially known as a ‘coronal hole’, isn’t actually a hole in the ...
PRIMA — the Probe far-infrared Mission for Astrophysics — is in the proposal stage, with hopes to be launched by the end of ...
More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena, Calif., institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson ...
Every now and then for the last 50 years, an enormous hole opens up in the Antarctic sea ice. And by enormous, we mean truly ...
Discovering new black holes is no easy feat — where do you even begin to look? New data and techniques help us get closer ...
“No one was expecting to find a high-mass black hole lurking nearby, undetected so far,” Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer from ...
People might assume that, were the Sun to be replaced by a black hole, the Earth would be doomed to fall towards it. Black ...