This black hole is around 9 times the mass of the Sun and circles a 25-solar-mass blue giant star. And strangely, the researchers could find no evidence of a supernova remnant.

The international team, known as the "black hole police," searched nearly 1,000 massive stars in the spectacular Tarantula Nebula (pictured) in the constellation of Dorado.

The black hole has a diameter of around 33 miles (54 kilometers) and is dwarfed by the energetic star, which is some 200,000 times larger. Both rapidly rotate around a common center of mass.

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape. Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of ...

These bright colors also serve to reveal the jets of high-energy particles that are being shot outward by the nebula’s central black hole, a microquasar known as SS 433 (red dot at center).

It's the first time a "dormant" black hole has been unambiguously detected outside the Milky Way, the researchers say. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at ...

Astronomers discovered a star being ripped apart by a black hole in the galaxy SDSS J152120.07+140410.5, 850 million light years away. Researchers pointed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

An artist's rendering of a black hole. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), N. Bartmann) This threshold, known as the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit ...

SS 433. In the second movement of this black hole composition, listeners can explore a duet. SS 433 is a binary (double) system about 18,000 light-years away that sings out in X-rays.

The black hole begins as a dark and stealthy object, but when a star passes too close it gets pulled in by the black hole’s gravity and is stretched, or, to use the technical term ...