Astronomers have discovered a black hole coming towards Earth. Before you get too alarmed, just know that we aren’t actually in danger — however, that doesn’t make the news any less unsettling.
This is a galactic-sized problem. Scientists revealed Tuesday that galaxy PBC J2333.9-2343 has been reclassified after discovering a supermassive black hole that is currently facing our solar ...
Unless they are giving off light by gobbling up nearby stars, it is impossible to know where black holes may lurk. It's for this reason that we know of only 20 such behemoths in our Milky Way ...
A NEW study has suggested that the nearest black hole to Earth could be 10 times closer than previously thought. The study was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...
Scientists think two, or even three, black holes could live just about 150 light years from our planet. Astronomers may have discovered that the closest black holes to Earth could be lurking in ...
Astronomers have discovered that the closest black holes to Earth may exist in the Hyades star cluster. Observations made with the Gaia satellite suggest that several black holes likely exist in ...
The phenomenon known as a "black hole" is making news this week, as astronomers have captured the first direct evidence of a black hole spinning — providing groundbreaking insights into the ...
The closest black holes to Earth may have just gotten trillions of miles closer. In new research published in the September issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ...
The closest black holes to Earth ever detected have been found in the Hyades open cluster just 150 light-years distant. An open cluster is a loosely bound group of hundreds of similarly aged stars ...
Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Black holes are regions in space where an enormous ...
Scientists have discovered what seems to be the oldest supermassive black hole yet. "Thanks to our discovery, we are able to say that in the first billion years of life of the universe, there ...
The matter density needed to form such a black hole is extremely high—about 2 x 10 19 kg per cubic meter. That’s more extreme than the density of an atomic nucleus .
