Observational astronomy shows that newly discovered young stellar objects (YSOs) in the immediate vicinity of the ...
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are now better understood thanks to a recent breakthrough in astronomical research.
A simulation showed black holes with masses between 100 and 10,000 times that of the sun could be born through a chaotic ...
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a whimper, not a bang, and sink into a black hole of their own making without the light and fury of a ...
Based on estimates of the black hole's mass, and that of the disrupted star, they were able to come up with an estimate for the black hole's spin -- less than 25 percent the speed of light.
Joint research led by Michiko Fujii of The University of Tokyo demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of ...
(Nanowerk News) By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best modeling to ...
Clemson University astrophysicists believe they have discovered a rare black hole system, containing two black holes, in ...
Distance: Roughly 1,560 light-years away, located in the constellation Ophiuchus. (For comparison, the nearest star to our Sun is only 4.24 light-years distant.) Detection Method: Gaia BH1 doesn't ...
Imagine an object with gravity so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape after falling in. Such a beast would be like an infinitely deep hole and utterly black. Someone should come up ...
A new study in Physical Review Letters explores the conditions of black hole formation from dying stars, particularly the role of neutrino-induced natal kicks in the formation process. Black holes ...