There are pods of whales and gaggles of geese. Now astronomers are wondering which plural term would best suit the most enigmatic entity in the cosmos. By Dennis Overbye What do you call a black ...

UHZ1's black hole weighs about 40 million solar masses. ... If they cool off too quickly, then instead of collapsing as a monolithic entity, they fragment into many smaller pockets, ...

Black holes, arguably the strangest objects in the known universe, are notoriously difficult to detect. Scientists from Johns Hopkins University theorize that objects, such as a hypothetical ...

The black hole in question is a monster 6.5 billion times as massive as the sun, and lies in the center of an enormous elliptical galaxy, Messier 87, about 55 million light-years away in the ...

Groundbreaking theory may transform our understanding of ‘white holes’ - Time is traditionally viewed as linear, but researchers say it could be dynamic ...

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Einstein's theory of relativity say black holes are 'bald', but a new tweak to his research may give the mysterious objects their long-sought 'hair.' ...

Black holes were predicted by Albert Einstein through his general theory of relativity in 1915 — but the idea of a black hole is actually much older, according the European Space Agency.

The black hole is often referred to as Sgr A*, pronounced sadge ay star. Its mass is about 4 million times that of the sun, and it's about 27,000 light years from Earth, according to MIT.

Just three numbers—that’s all it takes to completely, unequivocally, 100 percent describe a black hole in general relativity. If I tell you the mass, electric charge, and spin (i.e., angular ...