Black Hole

A team of international scientists spotted a stellar black hole three-and-a-half times greater than anyone thought possible. Researchers previously estimated the mass of an individual black hole in our galaxy at no more than 20 times that of the sun. Jifeng…

The team used China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to find stars orbiting objects that are seemingly invisible -- a technique that had been proposed back in 1783, but hadn't really been possible until recently. They then …

Scientists recently found a black hole so big that theory strains explain it, a new study reports. A Chinese-led team discovered a stellar-mass black hole that appears to be 68 times heftier than Earth's sun — nearly three times bigger than the heaviest …

Humankind caught its first glimpse of a black hole on April 10, 2019. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, which uses an Earth-spanning network of radio observatories acting in concert, shared images it had captured of an apparent black hole with 6.5 billi…

This photo shows the artist rendering of the black hole LB-1. A Chinese-led research team has discovered a surprisingly large stellar black hole about 14,000 light-years from Earth.  (Photo: Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images) An international team of scientis…

A gigantic stellar black hole 15,000 light-years from Earth is twice as massive as what researchers thought was possible in our own galaxy. The black hole is 70 times more massive than the sun, the scientists wrote in a new study. Previously, scientists th…

No one has ever seen a 70-solar-mass stellar black hole anywhere, Joel Bregman, one of the study authors and a professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan, said in an interview. This is the first. An alien comet from another star is soaring through …

A black hole with a mass 70 times greater than the Sun was discovered, leaving scientists stunned. Interested in NASA? Add NASA as an interest to stay up to date on the latest NASA news, video, and analysis from ABC News. "Black holes of such mass should n…

A black hole with a mass 70 times greater than the Sun was discovered, leaving scientists stunned. "Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy, according to most of the current models of stellar evolution," Professor Jifeng Liu, who led the…

Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way so huge that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve, researchers said Thursday. LB-1 is 15,000 light years from Earth and has a mass 70 times greater than the Sun, according to the journal …