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 ...

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

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 ...

Two supermassive black holes carrying the faint light of the Big Bang, 11.6 billion and 11.7 billion light-years away, have ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected powerful black hole jets emanating from a galaxy 11.6 billion light-years away. These jets, formed durin ...

The question of where these supermassive black holes come from is an open research question, she remarked, as it is still not quite understood how they form. Science and communication ...