Astronomers have discovered a black hole coming towards Earth. Before you get too alarmed, just know that we aren’t actually in danger — however, that doesn’t make the news any less unsettling.
"This work is a unique collaboration between astronomers and computer scientists advancing cutting-edge computational tools ...
There's a massive newly discovered black hole in the Milky Way, and it looms near the Earth. Using the European satellite telescope Gaia, which monitors the motion of billions of stars in our ...
Our Sun is currently around the mid-point of its existence, constantly creating energy (and helium) by fusing hydrogen atoms within its core. As the supply of hydrogen in their cores are depleted ...
The Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of four great space telescopes NASA launched in the 1990s, revolutionized our understanding of the universe from the moment it first began recording X-rays ...
A hiccuping supermassive black hole has alerted astronomers to a whole new type of black hole behavior. In 2020, a previously quiet black hole at the heart of a galaxy about 800 million light ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After years of work and a whole lot of hype, researchers working with the Event Horizon ...
Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass ...
Quirks and Quarks8:17Seeing a black hole’s magnetic personality Scientists using the Event Horizon Telescope have produced a new image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
In only a matter of three months, tens of millions of people across the continent will be able to step outside their doors and witness a rare total solar eclipse that hasn't occurred in years.
When early astronomers observed the sky, they imagined the vast array of stars embedded in a giant "crystalline sphere" that encompassed the Earth and the Sun. They believed that the planets ...