Astronomers have found a black hole where few thought they could ever exist, inside a globular star cluster. The finding has broad implications for the dynamics of stars clusters and also for the ...

The black hole Gargantua is at the center of Interstellar. The 12 potentially habitable planets that can save humanity are ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some ...

A supermassive black hole, several million solar masses, has been discovered at the center of the GN-z11 galaxy, existing approximately 400 million years post-Big Bang. The black hole's accretion disk ...

Black Hole Finder asks citizen scientists to identify singularities in telescope images. Black Hole Finder asks citizen scientists to identify singularities in telescope images. is a former weekend ...

"I think all dark matter candidates are just a little bit wild." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Just before the end of 2023, ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away. Unlike most, it is actively feeding and producing radio jets, making it ...

The team responsible for the Oscar-nominated visual effects at the center of Christopher Nolan’s epic, Interstellar, have turned science fiction into science fact by providing new insights into the ...

The short answer is yes: When two black holes merge, the resulting black hole has both more mass and a larger diameter. How much bigger? Let’s find out! When astronomers talk about the size of a black ...

The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" the explosive supernova collapse of dying stars over 65 million light years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

In around 5 billion years, the sun will reach the end of its nuclear-fuel-burning life and will no longer be able to support itself against its own gravity. The outer layers of our star will spread ...