Sometimes astronomers come up with awesome names for certain phenomena and then feel like they can’t use them in formal…
A red giant star may have a black hole companion that is only three solar masses in size.
In the past we’ve reported about how the Roman Space Telescope is going to potentially be able to detect hundreds…
Binary black holes lens light so strongly it's difficult to simulate how they would appear. A new simulation shows us…
An intermediate mass black hole was discovered by its chance alignment with a gamma ray burst.
A new look at the black hole in M87 tells us about the magnetic fields that drive its activity.
The smallest black hole we've observed might prove dark matter is made of primordial black holes.
Supermassive black holes are just a little bit too supermassive - astronomers have difficulty explaining how they got so big…
New parallax measurements of Cygnus X-1 by the VLBA find it is more distant than we thought, and therefore more…
Globular clusters can be home to lots of stellar-mass black holes, rather than a single intermediate mass black hole.