An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed nearly 1,000 mysterious strands, inexplicably dangling...
Research done at Cornell University has uncovered from gravitation wave data the first potential signs of spin-orbit resonances in binary...
The merging of galaxies is one critical path of galaxy evolution, yet the incidence rate of galaxy pairs and their...
Astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the...
For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits. According to...
Numbers like π, e and φ often turn up in unexpected places in science and mathematics. Pascal’s triangle and the...
Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and...
One of the mind-bending ideas that physicists and mathematicians have come up with is that space itself—not just objects in...
An international team of astronomers has taken a step forward in understanding the evolution of galaxies, and in so doing,...
Just over a month ago, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released the complete dataset of 10,000 galaxies...
The laws of physics underlying everyday life are, at one level of description, completely known, and can be summarized in...
Gamma rays are the most energetic known form of electromagnetic radiation, with each gamma-ray being at least one hundred thousand...
