Tags: black holes

An open question among the physics community is whether black holes can be tidally deformed by an external gravitational field. If this were confirmed to be true, it could have...

Scientists have found an unusual void hiding in plain sight. Scientists have spotted the closest black hole to our solar system so far, and unlike the supermassive monster that was...

If you’re a longtime reader of CNET Science, you know we’re very, very interested in black holes. Last week, we were fascinated by the tiny «unicorn» black hole discovered close...

Using polarized light, researchers with the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration reveal the environment close to the famous, mammoth black hole. When the Event Horizon Telescope captured the very first image...

PhysOrg.com) — A curious correlation between the mass of a galaxy’s central black hole and the velocity of stars in a vast, roughly spherical structure known as its bulge has...

  The center of the Milky Way is a puzzle of invisible, interconnected blobs. There are swooping tendrils of energy visible only in radio wavelengths, hourglass-shaped scars of X-ray light...

A tight knot of stars nearly as old as the universe hides a dark secret at its core. The globular cluster NGC 6397, a conglomeration of stars about 7,800 light-years...

To answer this question, first we need to look at what black holes are and how they work. A black hole is what remains when a massive star dies. A massive star usually has...

  SCIENTISTS have found the biggest black holes known to exist — each one 10 billion times the size of our sun. A team led by astronomers at the University...

A NEW study has claimed black holes could be «back doors» to other regions of the universe . However, scientists say it is unlikely anyone passing through one of the gateways would survive. If they did...