If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

"This would be the closest thing that we know of around any black hole," says physicist Megan Masterson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ...

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

"This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole," Megan Masterson, a physicist at MIT who co-led the research, said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

"This would be the closest thing that we know of around any black hole," team co-leader and MIT researcher Megan Masterson said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered what very well may be Earth’s closest black hole.

What is causing these massive, mysterious explosions in space? What is causing these massive, mysterious explosions in space? This black hole was formed when the universe was a toddler This black ...

This is also unprecedented behavior for a black hole. If these weird episodes are the result of an orbiting white dwarf, a type of stellar remnant left behind when a star with around the mass of the ...