"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

The scenario closest to the observations, the researchers determined, involved a massive dying star and a compact object such ...

If we do find a black hole that's close enough, the next challenge is getting there. For that, Bambi proposes the development ...

The massive "Cosmic Horseshoe" galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...