Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

The team revisited data from an object first spotted years ago, using updated observations to finally confirm its identity, as detailed in their paper published in The Astrophysical Journal. Several ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

Physicists in the UK have created the first-ever laboratory version of a black hole bomb, replicating a decades-old ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

Without a buddy, this black hole made itself known through a different mechanism, called gravitational microlensing.

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...

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 ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers off guard. This unexpected awakening, traced to a black hole at the galaxy ...