If there is a black hole, it's at least 20 times farther from Earth than the furthest planet, Neptune, in a distant region of our solar system called the extended Kuiper Belt. The belt is home to ...

Astronomers are in fact amazingly good at finding even much lighter objects in our solar system, such as small asteroids, whereas direct observation of a small black hole with a telescope would ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...

"In principle, extraction is possible, and it could be a clean and efficient solution to the complex energy problems we will ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." ...

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

As one of the only galaxies outside our own ... massive a black hole would need to be to eject stars at the measured velocities, and they calculate it would be roughly 600,000 solar masses.

I find the outer reaches of our solar system fascinating. It’s a place that we know very little about considering how relatively close it is – even its size is up for debate. It’s littered ...