European scientists say they have discovered the biggest stellar black hole yet in the Milky Way, less than 2,000 light-years ...

Researchers utilizing the European Gaia spacecraft have discovered a black hole in a binary system, located 1,500 light-years ...

That would be Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way whose mass is about 4 million times ...

Black holes are one of the most devastating objects in space, sucking up everything around them. But there's another space phenomenon that's just as destructive, and it's known as a white hole.

When that star exploded at the end of its lifespan - called a supernova - it blasted some material into space while the remnant violently collapsed to form a black hole. The discovery of Gaia BH3 ...

Black holes are created when massive stars collapse at the end of their lives (and perhaps under other circumstances that we don’t know about yet). One of the first steps toward the discovery of black ...

Apr. 22, 2024 — Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive flare-ups in the disk of gas ...

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It had been thought that these processes set limits on how big a stellar mass black hole could be when it forms. The discovery of larger black holes through gravitational wave detectors suggested ...

BH3, on the other hand, is the most massive in its category of stellar black holes, which were created by the collapse of a star. The discovery promises to let astrophysicists study whether and ...