The Manatee Nebula formed when a giant star exploded more than 10,000 years ago, leaving a black hole at its core. Credit: B. Saxton, (NRAO/AUI/NSF) from data provided by M. Goss et al.

Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb space telescopes. The Abell 2744 galaxy cluster dominates this image, while the closeups from each ...

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 ...

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.

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).

One of my favorite celestial objects in the universe is the black hole. Granted, I'm an astrophysicist. But I know I'm not alone. People love black holes. They seem to hold a near-mythic status in ...

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.

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 ...

Figure 1 | Clumps of gas emitted from the centre of a galaxy with a supermassive black hole. Radiation and powerful winds can be generated in the accretion disk of matter that circles a black hole.

Located 5,000 light-years from Earth, this black hole is much closer than the supermassive one at the Milky Way’s center, which also lies in Sagittarius but about 27,000 light-years from us.