An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky...
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe. Supermassive versions of these unimaginably dense objects likely reside at...
Researchers’ recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot...
For the first time, an international team of scientists have found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from NGC 1068, also...
With the exception of black holes, neutron stars are the densest objects in the universe. As their name suggests, neutron...
Bizarre quantum properties of black holes—including their mind-bending ability to have different masses simultaneously—have been confirmed by University of Queensland...
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered an important new clue about...
Pictures of the sky can show us cosmic wonders; movies can bring them to life. Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space...
Researchers have developed a new way to use femtosecond laser pulses to fabricate the high-precision ultrathin mirrors required for high-performance...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope to look back in time at the early universe, astronomers discovered a surprise: a...
The discovery of a so-called monster black hole that has about 12 times the mass of the sun is detailed...
Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter—mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only...
