Techniques developed to analyze the ripples in spacetime detected by one of the 21st century’s most sensitive pieces of scientific...
The gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have detected a population of massive black holes whose origin is one of...
An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover gravitationally bound star clusters when...
For the last seven decades, astrophysicists have theorized the existence of “kugelblitze,” black holes caused by extremely high concentrations of...
A French-Chinese telescope satellite will blast off this weekend on a mission to hunt down gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful...
The James Webb Space Telescope observed a galaxy in a particularly young stage of the universe. Looking back into the...
Supermassive black holes pose unanswered questions for astronomers around the world, not the least of which is “How do they...
ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra spacecraft have detected three young neutron stars that are unusually cold for their age. By...
In late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers have...
When stars collapse, they can leave behind incredibly dense but relatively small and cold remnants called neutron stars. If two...
A recent study has investigated teleparallel gravity and its potential to resolve tension surrounding the expansion of the universe in...
Astronomers believe that at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies sits a titanic black hole with a mass...
