Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth. It's about 1,000 light ... That might not sound very close, but on the scale of the Universe, it's actually ...

An animation showing the Cygnus X-1 system, consisting of a black hole in orbit with a giant star. Recent observations by radio telescopes have found the system is 20 per cent further away than ...

and suggests that the massive stars near the centre of this cluster are bound by a black hole,” Subr said.

It opens up new avenues for detecting and studying objects in close orbit around supermassive black holes, potentially ...

Black holes are dark, matter-devouring balls of gravity. Most of them are so far away that we don't need to worry about them. But not this one. Meet Gaia BH1. This ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has been ... emission would be generated close to and all around the black hole, which would be powerful enough ...

What we know is this: Falling into a black hole is an automatic death sentence. Any cosmic stuff that wanders too close reaches a ... 12 million light-years from Earth, in X-rays.

Messier 87 (M87), recently named Powehi, is a black hole 54 million light-years from Earth - yet it’s one ... the Event Horizon Telescope is giving a close-up view of a rocket launcher and ...

This Big Question comes from a pupils at Mobberley School who ask: "What's inside a black hole and could the Earth ever be swallowed up by one?" Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and ...

Astronomers on Tuesday said they found two supermassive black holes — the nearest pair to Earth ever discovered ... "They are astronomically close but that is still *really* far away from ...

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...