So far, astrophysicists have only detected gravitational waves from binary systems—the mergers of either two black holes, two neutron stars...
An international research team has succeeded for the first time in measuring the electron spin in matter—i.e., the curvature of...
Although astrophysicists have never sensed supermassive black hole binary systems, a galaxy-sized detector composed of dead stars is hot on...
Few cosmic explosions have attracted as much attention from space scientists as the one recorded on October 22 last year...
The first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015 has opened a new window on the universe, enabling in particular...
Supermassive black holes that weigh several billion times the mass of our sun are present at the centers of active...
Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space...
A team of researchers from EPFL have found a way to use the phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing to determine...
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In...
New theoretical research by Michael Wondrak, Walter van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke of Radboud University has shown that Stephen Hawking...
Astrophysicists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published a new theoretical model that solves the mystery of the formation of...
Researchers discovered only relatively recently that black hole jets emit X-rays, and how the jets accelerate particles to this high-energy...
