Is there a black hole in the Milky Way? Sagittarius A* is our own private supermassive black hole, the still point around which our galaxy revolves. Black holes trap everything that falls in, including light, so they are, in a very...
Is Sagittarius A black hole? The image, which is based on radio interferometer data taken in 2017, confirms that the object contains a black hole. This is the second image of a black hole. This image took five years of calculations...
Are black holes a danger to Earth? We are in absolutely no danger from black holes. They’re a bit like tigers – it’s a bad idea to stick your head in their mouth, but you’re probably not going to meet one...
Can you see the Unicorn black hole? How big is a Unicorn black hole? The Unicorn is about three times the mass of our sun – tiny for a black hole. Very few black holes of this mass have been found...
What is the nearest black hole to Earth 2022? Astronomers have discovered the closest known black hole to Earth. The dormant black hole, dubbed Gaia BH1, sits 1,600 light-years away – three times closer than the last black hole to hold...
Is TON 618 bigger than the Milky Way? In the case of TON 618, the enormous Lyman-alpha nebula surrounding it has the diameter of at least 100 kiloparsecs (320,000 light-years), twice the size of the Milky Way. How big is TON...
What is our Blackhole called? The Milky Way hosts its own supermassive black hole at its center known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “ay star”) that is more than four million times as massive as our sun. Is there a black hole...
What is the death of a black hole? Over time they shrink down to nothing and simply pop away in a flash of energy. It’s not exactly fast. A good size black hole — say, a few times more massive than...
What can defeat a black hole? Black holes, the insatiable monsters of the universe, are impossible to kill with any of the weapons in our grasp. The only thing that can hasten a black hole’s demise is a cable made of...
Have any black holes exploded? To date astronomers have not found any evidence of exploding primordial black holes, but they could be out there. Do black holes explode or evaporate? Ever since Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes evaporate, we’ve known...