How small can a black hole be? For several decades ... found in the constellation Monoceros, named by ancient astronomers after the Greek word for unicorn. By studying this unicorn and other ...

A luminous star called a red giant orbits with the black hole in a so-called binary star system named V723 Mon ... "We nicknamed this black hole 'the Unicorn' partly because V723 Mon is in ...

And that’s why astronomers and space aficionados around the world have been thrilled by the discovery of yet another black ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth ... and our star and Jupiter at their closest. "It's a real unicorn," lead researcher Pasquale Panuzzo of CNRS ...

The closest black hole to Earth may be just 1,500 light-years away from the Sun. V723 Monocerotis is a variable star within the constellation Monoceros, "the Unicorn," and a unicorn indeed it may be.

At the center of the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* that is located 26,000 light-years away. It is 14.6 million miles wide and is four million times the mass of ...

A language professor has given a Hawaiian name — Powehi — to the black hole depicted in an image produced in a landmark experiment. University of Hawaii-Hilo Hawaiian professor Larry Kimura ...

Scientists have dubbed the black hole ‘Powehi,’ which is a Hawaiian phrase meaning “the adorned fathomless dark creation” or “embellished dark source of unending creation.” The name, which was ...

This black hole's jets are wobbling at record speed! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have spotted wildly ...

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light seen from a newly awakened black hole named Ansky. ESA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...