In a pair of new studies published in Nature Astronomy and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the astronomers ...

Astronomers detect a million-sun-mass dark object in deep space using gravitational lensing. This hidden mass may be dark matter or a dormant dwarf galaxy, supporting cold dark matter models and ...

The bright outflow jets of J0529 are being fed by a process called Super-Eddington Accretion, where an object exceeds its ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path ...

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

Discovery: An international team has discovered a dark object in the distant universe that has one million times the mass of ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race ...

A surprising new study reveals that the first stars appeared in a pre-heated universe, challenging earlier ideas about early cosmic conditions.