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 ...
Young stellar objects travel around the black hole in the centre of our galaxy at a speed of over a thousand kilometres per second / publication in ‘Astronomy & Astrophysics’ Observational astronomy ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two papers comprise the research, one published in The Astrophysical Journal, and one as yet unpublished that will be ...
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 ...
Tiny 'supercharged' black holes born just after the Big Bang may have been brief companions to primordial black holes, dying ...