The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

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

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

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 ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already steeped in high-energy particles. The finding hints at ancient black hole ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...