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.

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

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 ...

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

Learn more about the discovery of a nearby black hole that we could be exploring in the coming decades.

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

A nanoship is on its way to a black hole. An astrophysicist wants to send a nanoship (a tiny spacecraft) directly to a black ...

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In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...