Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...
Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...
Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of ...
New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...
LOS ANGELES — A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic ...
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when ...
In a recent study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, scientists from Copenhagen and Amsterdam said merging ...
That’s where X-rays come in. Most known black holes exist in binary systems, where they have a companion star. The black hole ...
Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight proximity.
Chinese scientists used radial velocity and astrometry methods to discover a promising mass-gap black hole in the binary ...
Over the past six decades, scientists have discovered two dozen stellar-mass black holes using X-ray methods. These black ...