The nearest black hole that we know of at the moment is 1,560 light-years away. There’s probably a black hole lurking within ...

The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

Astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin have discovered the most distant black hole ever confirmed, which is 300 ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in ...

Nestled within a tiny red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years -- just 500 million years before the Big Bang -- and shows ...

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

A bold new proposal envisions launching laser-propelled nanocraft to a nearby black hole to test Albert Einstein's theory of ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...