At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

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

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

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

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Audrey Lang named an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for black ...

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

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...