A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...
Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...
A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...
"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Chinese researchers have identified black holes as the likely source of the high-energy component of the cosmic-ray “knee.” Milestone findings released on November 16 by the Large High Altitude Air Sh ...
"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...
NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025. The galaxy contains a black ...
All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly ...