“No one was expecting to find a high-mass black hole lurking nearby, undetected so far,” Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer from ...
People might assume that, were the Sun to be replaced by a black hole, the Earth would be doomed to fall towards it. Black ...
This sleeping giant was discovered with the European ... A*), which has a mass 4.2 million times that of the sun. Supermassive black holes like Sgr A* aren't created by the deaths of massive ...
European astronomers have investigated a recently detected black hole designated Gaia BH3. In their results, they found that ...
including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), uncovered a dormant giant black hole. With a mass about 33 times that of the Sun, this "monster" was hiding less than 2,000 light-years ...
which is an average of 16 times Earth’s distance from the Sun (though, at its furthest, its about as far from the black hole as Neptune is from our Sun), and determined that there must be a ...
Our Sun, for what it’s worth, probably won’t share either of these fates, and will instead transform into a white dwarf and, in 10 trillion years, a black dwarf. So, while stellar black holes ...
Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are ...
Astronomers have identified the most massive black hole known to exist within a binary star system in our Milky Way galaxy.