University of Oregon astronomer Yvette Cendes made a surprising discovery years after a black hole shredded a star. What is ...

The extraordinarily rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe puzzles astronomers, with current models ...

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...

Scientists report over 100 new gravitational wave detections, doubling the known catalog of black hole and neutron star ...

The results reveal that our universe is reverberating with cosmic collisions. Some of the waves stem from pairs of black ...

The dense centers of globular clusters are home to a whole zoo of exotic astrophysical phenomena. Dr. Kremer studies the unexpected events experienced by compact objects — black holes, neutron stars, ...

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.

Mysterious “little red dots” spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope may not hide black holes after all. Scientists now ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller ...

At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a cosmic giant: a supermassive black hole. These mysterious objects, millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun, exert such powerful gravity that ...

The black hole would have to be within 25 light years from Earth, and we haven’t seen one that close yet. That’s not stopping Cosimo Bambi.

The secret to the mysterious black holes at the center of galaxies. An image created using x-ray, microwave, and visible imagery reveals the jets and radio-emitting lobes emanating from Centaurus A's ...