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Ever since humans first gazed up at the night sky, the Universe has filled us with awe and wonder. Lately, however, it's also ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Gazing up at the stars at night, it’s easy to imagine that space goes on forever. But cosmologists know that the universe actually has limits. First, their best models indicate that space and time had ...

Learn how researchers used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to create the most accurate simulations to date.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

The detection of two singular black hole mergers, only one month apart in late 2024, improves our understanding of the nature ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...