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Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.
Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...
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 ...
A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...
Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.
Without a buddy, this black hole made itself known through a different mechanism, called gravitational microlensing.
Roger Penrose suggested black holes might release energy. He proposed that near a rotating black hole’s outer zone—called the ...
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 ...
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 ...
When British physicist Roger Penrose suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole, it sparked a ...