Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

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For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a black hole drifting alone in space—without a companion star ...

The team revisited data from an object first spotted years ago, using updated observations to finally confirm its identity, ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

A new discovery has surfaced, wherein the first-ever solitary black hole has been revealed in the Sagittarius constellation.

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked a rare and fast-moving magnetar – called SGR 0501+4516 – as it speeds ...

I expect to see the existence of extraterrestrial life confirmed within the next few years. When it happens, let the moment ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

The detection of dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to make up most of the universe's mass, is a long-standing ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...