To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture the size of the Earth. One participating EHT telescope, highlighted here, is ...

A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object that they believe could look like a black hole to Earth-based observers but is actually a star. The star is a topological soliton: a ...

Astronomers have discovered a neutron star orbiting a mysterious object that, by all accounts, shouldn’t be able to exist. Seemingly invisible in light, and too small to be a black hole, the ...

A strange object about 40,000 light years away is either the heaviest neutron star or the lightest black hole we have ever seen, sitting in a mysterious void of objects that astronomers have never ...

However, the discovery team couldn't classify the object with conviction at the time, concluding it could be either the biggest known neutron star or the smallest known black hole.

An artist’s impression of the companion object as a black hole. The bright star in background is its pulsar companion. Illustration: Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl) A team of scientists found ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious unknown object in our galaxy that could be a breakthrough in the study of black holes. The “extremely dense remnant of a collapsed star” lies ab… ...

A monster black hole has been discovered, and it devours the equivalent mass of our sun every single day.

Astronomers have uncovered the most promising evidence yet for the existence of dark stars—giant cosmic objects powered by ...

Astrophysicists Aren’t Quite Sure What This Mysterious Space Object Is It’s either a black hole or a neutron star — but scientists are not quite clear which.

Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? MeerKAT uncovers a mysterious object in Milky Way Date: January 18, 2024 Source: University of Manchester Summary: An international team of ...

The star's shredding by a black hole offers clues into the poorly understood field of partial tidal disruption events.