Astronomers think there could be as many as 100 million black holes in our galaxy, most with a similar mass to our Sun, but ...

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a black hole drifting alone in space—without a companion star ...

Gravitational microlensing occurs when one star passes directly in front of a background star, as seen from Earth. The gravitational field of the foreground star acts like a lens, magnifying the ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

PRIME uses wide field imaging and gravitational microlensing techniques that measure brightness variations of faint objects in the infrared spectrum (not visible to humans). To detect exoplanets ...