Narrator: Black holes are some of the most powerful and ... In fact, they even went so far to give it a name, Planet 9. Now, of course, if they were to confirm this discovery, it would be ...

A binary star system is orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

PBHs would have much less mass than the stellar black holes later formed by dying stars, but they would still be extremely dense, like the mass of a mountain compacted into an area the size of an atom ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. As black holes go, it is pretty ...

But it wasn't clear whether this was caused by an "intermediate mass" black hole (IMBH), weighing a hundred thousand times the mass of the Sun, or a cluster of "stellar mass" black holes ...

The finding comes from observation of an X-ray binary - a neutron star or black hole pulling in gas from a companion star Astronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever to be ...

More information: De-Chang Dai et al, Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and here on Earth, Physics of the Dark Universe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2024.101662 ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have ...

Scientists say that following on the heels of D9's discovery, they are hopeful to find planets at the centre of Milky Way.