For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

A tiny black hole may pass through our solar system once every ten or so years, researchers have suggested, and this could be detected by watching Mars wobble. This estimate is based on an idea ...

Recently, there has been big news in the field of astronomy! Scientists have detected a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Once this news broke, many people began to worry: ...

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system — at a rate of at least once every decade. These tiny black holes could be extremely ...

The newly discovered system consists of a central black hole consuming a small star in a close 6.5-day orbit, similar to ...

A RARE “black moon” linked to the biblical prophecy of the “end times” is expected to show up in the night sky over the ...