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

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

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

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

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