In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

A new discovery has surfaced, wherein the first-ever solitary black hole has been revealed in the Sagittarius constellation.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

Rights groups are increasingly worried that El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison is becoming a "black hole" for the United States to rid itself of expelled migrants or other unwanted people with no ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

ANDREWS REPLIES: To answer Scott: If Planet Nine is discovered, I’m confident a probe would eventually be sent to it! But after launch it might take decades for a spacecraft to reach that destination, ...

Snakes don’t dig their own holes—but that doesn't mean they still can’t take up shop in holes already made by something else.

Researchers made a fascinating discovery at the heart of our galaxy: "strange filaments" driving a cycle of gas emissions and ...