For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space ...

Black holes are bounded by outer barriers called event horizons that prevent us from ever viewing their interiors or their hearts, singularities at which all known laws of physics collapse.

We've all woken up in a terrible mood from time to time, but a newly observed monster black hole is really having a bad day. The previously inactive supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...

The study considered a dying, 2-solar-mass star known as a subgiant. These stars are reaching the end of their lives. Most of the hydrogen in their cores has been transformed to helium, but they ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While ...

PARIS, France - A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said ...

Last summer, researchers announced the first ever detection of a supermassive black hole being spotted as it awoke. The object, known as SDSS1335+0728 and nicknamed Ansky, is one of a kind.

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, according to new research. In the extremely early universe, primordial black ...

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said Friday.