A new discovery has surfaced, wherein the first-ever solitary black hole has been revealed in the Sagittarius constellation.

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

"The three-dimensional world of ordinary experience—the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and people—is a hologram, an image of reality coded on a distant ...

And when it comes to reading comments, "Although I still care about that feedback," Ballerini adds, "I don't give it the ...

Karratha golfer Royce Castano has broken an unusual record by completing 720 holes in 24 hours in a golf simulator. Indoor golf is popular in the mining city as the sweltering summer temperatures ...