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

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

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

Researchers have identified a rogue black hole, marking the first time such an isolated object has been confirmed in deep ...

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

TIL I learned about gravastars (aka a gravitational vacuum star), theoretical objects related to black holes. Both are massive & ...

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 ...

NASA has confirmed a powerful black hole collision in a nearby region of space, sending ripples through spacetime and offering scientists rare insights into the most extreme forces in the universe. [b ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...