When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Drawing of a sun-like star orbiting a hidden neutron star. | Credit: Caltech/Kareem El-Badry Astronomers have discovered 21 “one in a million” binary systems, in which sun-like stars orbit a hidden “dead star” – an extremely dense and compact… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have identified the largest known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The “sleeping giant,” called Gaia BH3, has a mass almost 33 times that of… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have identified the largest known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The “sleeping giant,” called Gaia BH3, has a mass almost 33 times that of… Read More »
Often the most exciting black hole news surrounds the biggest, baddest and most violent voids we can imagine. I’m talking about supermassive black holes with masses billions of times that of the Sun; Called quasars, they eat away at the matter around them and spew out the excess so aggressively that they create patterns of… Read More »