Astronomers have discovered what may be a free-floating black hole by observing the brightening of a more distant star as its light was distorted by the object's strong gravitational field -- ...

(BCN)– That our very own Milky Way Galaxy is home to millions — even billions — of isolated black holes is an observation that scientists have always believed. But they’re extremely hard to detect; in ...

If, as astronomers believe, the death of large stars leave behind black holes, there should be hundreds of millions of them scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The problem is, isolated black ...