A new article published in The Astrophysical Journal explores a new theory of how Type Ia supernovae, the powerful stellar ...

Scientists have used a gravitational wave detector to "hear" two black holes getting bigger as they merged into a single, gigantic entity. The detection, made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found evidence suggesting that a hidden supermassive black hole influenced the merger of two black holes in the event GW190814. Researchers at the ...

Patricia Schmidt receives funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through grants ST/V005677/1 and ST/Y00423X/1, and The Royal Society through a Research Grant RG\R1\241327. Geraint Pratten is ...

Newly reported gravitational waves rang out as clear as a bell. Spotted in January, these spacetime ripples are the clearest yet discovered, cutting through the background noise better than any ...

Traditionally, black holes are usually thought to "reside" at the centers of galaxies. However, a research team led by Dr. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the Infinity Galaxy, a unique cosmic structure formed by colliding galaxies. At its center, astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole in an ...

Black holes may be the fiercest objects in the universe, yet we still know very little about them. It has only been a decade since we confirmed their existence by detecting gravitational waves: ...

Scientists have been amazed to discover an ancient and 'nearly naked' black hole at the very furthest reaches of the universe. This ancient void dates back to 600 to 700 million years after the Big ...

Two cosmic mysteries—one a devourer of light, the other a theoretical fountain of matter—meet in an unprecedented event. Join the ultimate thought experiment as we explore the science and speculation ...

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