The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at our galaxy’s core, Sagittarius A*, is modest in size with only 4.15 million solar-masses....
Water is essential for life, but for astrophysicists, it represents something more. Researchers look at water in galaxies, its distribution...
Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two supermassive black holes appear to be orbiting around...
How can Einstein’s theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? It is a challenge that could give us deep...
The mystery of how the first quasars in the universe formed—something that has baffled scientists for nearly 20 years—has now...
When massive stars or other stellar objects explode in the Earth’s cosmic neighborhood, ejected debris can also reach our solar...
When two black holes merge, they emit gravitational waves that race through space and time at the speed of light....
New theoretical research by Michael Wondrak, Walter van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke of Radboud University has shown that Stephen Hawking...
Peer long enough into the heavens, and the Universe starts to resemble a city at night. Galaxies take on characteristics...
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) have helped to detect a remarkable gravitational-wave signal,...
From our single vantage point in the cosmos, it’s really hard to understand three-dimensional space. We can easily map stars...
A brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system on April 15, triggering many space-based instruments, including those...
