Researchers have detected a gamma-ray burst outside of the Milky Way that's unlike any previously observed. There's no ...

An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope spanning two decades to detect seven fast-moving stars in the ...

Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find evidence of an elusive kind of black hole, one that's about 8,000 times more massive than our sun. What makes this black hole special is its ...

So far, only about ten intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered in the entire universe. The newly identified black hole causes surrounding stars in a cluster to move in an unexpectedly ...

Turns out intermediate-mass black holes have something in common with London buses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For decades, ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, ...

The likely position of Omega Centauri star cluster’s intermediate black hole. From left to right, each panel zooms in closer to the system. Omega Centauri is a spectacular collection of 10 million ...

An international team of astronomers used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades of observations – to detect seven fast-moving stars in the innermost region of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has since confirmed the VLT’s evidence that ... Their best bet is a white dwarf being shredded by an intermediate mass black hole. However, since black holes in this mass ...

Astronomers have spotted a rare "'missing link"' black hole, and it's lurking right in the center of our galaxy. The IRS 13 star cluster has long been a puzzle for astronomers. Located just a tenth of ...