A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

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

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

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

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

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

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