SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviews All Posts Tagged Gaia Astronomers find the nearest black hole to Earth, and it has a Sun-like companion star At 1,570 light-years away it's three times closer than the previous record holder. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago The future history of the Sun New data shows when the Sun will start to die. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago Over time, some stars get uncomfortably close to the Sun Several stars in the recent past have given us a cosmically close shave. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago Timeline of the Milky Way New work shows a part of our Milky Way galaxy is far older than previously thought. By Phil Plait | 11 months ago Our Milky Way galaxy’s last big collision still leaves clues 10 billion years later Undigested cosmic sausage reveals secrets of a massive galactic merger. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Just how many stars *is* Albireo, and is one of them a black hole? By Phil Plait | 1 year ago A new way to find gigantic black holes paired up at the dawn of the Universe By Phil Plait | 1 year ago The best horror, sci-fi, and fantasy movies and shows we saw at SXSW 2021 By Matthew Jackson | 2 years ago The Sun is surrounded by millions of binary stars! By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Gaia's map of the sky — with two *billion* stars By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Load More
Astronomers find the nearest black hole to Earth, and it has a Sun-like companion star At 1,570 light-years away it's three times closer than the previous record holder. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
The future history of the Sun New data shows when the Sun will start to die. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
Over time, some stars get uncomfortably close to the Sun Several stars in the recent past have given us a cosmically close shave. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
Timeline of the Milky Way New work shows a part of our Milky Way galaxy is far older than previously thought. By Phil Plait | 11 months ago
Our Milky Way galaxy’s last big collision still leaves clues 10 billion years later Undigested cosmic sausage reveals secrets of a massive galactic merger. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
A new way to find gigantic black holes paired up at the dawn of the Universe By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
The best horror, sci-fi, and fantasy movies and shows we saw at SXSW 2021 By Matthew Jackson | 2 years ago