Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The South Pole Telescope has mapped our skies in more detail than ever before, strengthening our understanding of dark energy ...

Under the right conditions, this collapse doesn’t end in a singularity — instead, it bounces and begins expanding again,” said University of Portsmouth professor Enrique Gaztañaga in a statement that ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar origins.

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Story highlights Two supermassive black holes carrying the faint light of the Big Bang, 11.6 billion and 11.7 billion light-years away, have been observed shooting jets at great speeds that are ...