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

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

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

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

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

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...