Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The question of which black hole is the closest to Earth is surprisingly tricky to answer. V4641 Sgr might be just 1,600 light-years away, or it might equally possibly be more like 24,000 light ...

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.

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).

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 ...

A record-breaking black hole comes to light, as two NASA telescopes paired up to view the most distant galaxy ever spotted in X-rays. Shown is the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, with the distant ...