We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

Future technology could one day allow a miniature, laser-propelled spacecraft — no heavier than a paperclip — to travel to a nearby black hole, according to a bold new proposal published on Thursday ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...