"This is very likely to bring us closer to discovering the true nature of dark energy. Perhaps it will also bring us closer ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

Scientists have found the first ever “black hole triple”.Many of the black holes previously found are thought to be part of a ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...

For centuries, gravity has been a source of fascination for scientists. Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Newton and ...

New research proposes a profound connection between two of the universe’s greatest mysteries: black holes and dark energy.

Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole and a secondary ...

The mystery of the universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the great enigmas of modern physics. Twenty-five years ago ...