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The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...
I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...
New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...
"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...
Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...
A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.
Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...