Rogue black holes
Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way
The thing with black holes is they're hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can…
2 years ago
Hubble Pins Down the Mass of a Potential Free-Floating Black Hole That’s 5,000 Light-Years Away
Earlier this year, astronomers used microlensing and the Hubble Space Telescope to detect, for the first time, a rogue black…
2 years ago
The First Rogue Black Hole has Been Discovered, and it’s Only 5,000 Light-Years Away
Microlensing strikes again. Astronomers have been using the technique to detect everything from rogue planets to the most distant star…
2 years ago