By combining data from the Subaru Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have discovered distant quasars that ...

What lies at the center of a black hole? A team of scientists led by Enrico ... determine the specific arrangement of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story ... have been unable to decide what a “black hole” visible on Google Maps is, after ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, scientists want to follow clues left behind by light that takes a round-a-bout ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star ... galactic center provides an ideal hunting ground for solitary black holes passing in ...

The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019 ... gamma rays can be detected from the ground by observing the secondary radiation ...

Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully ...

Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe. “Thirteen feet,” she said when the pole finally hit ground she ...

The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a supernova. But unlike a supernova, astronomers know that this came ...