Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

For the first time, scientists have observed a swirling distortion in spacetime caused by a rapidly spinning black hole—an ...

Physicists reveal that thousands of primordial black holes may drift through your home every year, undetected. Learn how these tiny, ancient black holes could be linked to dark matter and what that ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA collaboration with ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

Discover how Ramanujan's century-old pi formulas connect to modern cosmology and turbulent fluid physics in groundbreaking ...

A supermassive black hole has astonished astronomers after it was observed blasting out powerful winds raging at roughly one-fifth the speed of light. Two X-ray observatories, the European Space ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...