Two massive touching stars in a neighboring galaxy are on course to become black holes that will eventually crash together,...
When two black holes merge, they emit gravitational waves that race through space and time at the speed of light....
Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars—the brightest, most powerful objects in the universe—by discovering that they...
It looks like a black hole and bends light like a black hole, but it could actually be a new...
An international team of scientists, led by a researcher at The University of Manchester, have developed a novel AI (artificial...
Though we live in a vast three-dimensional universe, celestial objects seen through a telescope look flat because everything is so...
A quantum property dubbed “magic” could be the key to explaining how space and time emerged, a new mathematical analysis...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appears to be finding multiple galaxies that grew too massive too soon after the...
The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87—sometimes referred to as the “fuzzy, orange donut”—has...
An accretion disk is a colossal whirlpool of gas and dust that gathers around a black hole or a neutron...
Astronomers have spotted a candidate supermassive black hole running away from its home galaxy, hurtling through space at a velocity...
Exotic cosmic objects known as ultra-luminous X-ray sources produce about 10 million times more energy than the sun. They’re so...
