“When [the team] saw it, it was a long series of ‘wows.’” Gaia BH3 is the second closest known black hole to Earth The ...

Einstein's general theory of relativity predicted that so-called 'plunging regions' around black holes would accelerate ...

Black holes are probably the most popular astronomical objects among the public. Whenever I give talks, the audience peppers ...

NASA, on Monday, released an immersive visualization that simulates what entering a black hole would be like. There's a ...

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Gaia BH3's significant mass suggests it originated from a metal-poor star, which is thought to lose less mass over its lifetime, thus resulting in more material to produce a larger black hole ...

Recently, the Gaia collaboration discovered the most massive black hole that originated from the collapse of a star in the ...

The simple process of elimination led to the conclusion that the invisible companion must be a black hole. Kareem named it Gaia BH1: the closest known black hole to Earth. The discovery made ...

Researchers are hoping that new images from NASA can help explain the voracious appetites of black holes and give scientists ...