New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster. "The hunt for elusive intermediate-mass black ...

Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere containing roughly 10 million stars. Earlier this year, astronomers found evidence ...

A long-standing mystery about a strange cluster of stars in our galaxy may have finally been solved by scientists. The stars at the center of this huge cluster, Omega Centauri, appear to be moving ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The core of the spectacular globular cluster Omega Centauri ...

Omega Centauri is one of the finest jewels of the southern hemisphere night sky, as ESO’s latest stunning image beautifully illustrates. Containing millions of stars, this globular cluster is located ...

The plot has just thickened in the mystery tale about the unseen mass skulking inside the largest cluster of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. In the heart of Omega Centauri, a huge glob of ...

A rare "massive" black hole has been discovered about 18,000 light years from our planet—the closest of its type to our solar system ever found—after fast-moving stars provided "smoking gun" evidence ...

A new discovery has resolved some of the mystery surrounding Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. Images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the ...

From left to right: The globular star cluster Omega Centauri as a whole, a zoomed-in version of the central area, and the region in the very center with the location of the mid-size black hole that ...

There may be a strange, in-between kind of black hole lurking at the heart of a star cluster not too far away. At the center of the Omega Centauri cluster — a dense ball of stars about 17,000 light ...

The object would be the second-largest black hole to be found in our Galaxy, if further studies can confirm the findings, which are described today in Nature. It could also be the strongest candidate ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole likely lurks even closer to Earth than the ...