Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the merger," according to ALMA scientists. The Atacama Large ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...