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.

Scientists have recently found a black hole with a mass 33 times that of our Sun, and it's surprisingly close to Earth—relatively speaking, of course! This massive black hole, located in a nearby ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

T “What we’re seeing now is that there are strong, twisted, and organized magnetic fields near the black hole at the center ... the world to create a virtual Earth-sized telescope, the EHT ...

Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...

Scientists have long hypothesized the existence of small primordial black holes (PBHs), believed to ... support hollow structures up to 1/10 of Earth's radius. Although detecting PBHs may be ...

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 ...