Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

If a black hole did wander into our solar system, the largest effects would be gravitational. And those effects would depend ...

If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny gravitational distortions.

One Black Hole May Pass Through Our Solar System Every Decade, Study Finds. Published Sep 17, 2024 at 11:31 AM EDT Updated Sep 18, 2024 at 1:54 PM EDT. By .

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Physical Review D, physicists at MIT say the presence of a tiny black hole speeding through the solar system could be identified by the gentle ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

If our sun were replaced with a black hole of the same mass, our solar system would orbit similarly to how it does now, but it would be a lot colder. We don’t know what matter looks like inside ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

An illustration of a black hole visible in our solar system. (Image credit: buradaki/Getty Images) If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, ...