A view of the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster, one of the most massive objects in the universe, shows the ...

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...

An international team led by Monash University has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The enormous masses and extreme spins of the black holes ...

It may well take years to prove, but a pair of University of Miami astrophysicists could be on the verge of a cosmic ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a pair of dwarf galaxies with black holes that defy conventional ...

We go in depth on black holes: the strangest objects in the universe! Black holes are not just the strangest objects in the universe, they're the sharpest test we have of how reality actually works.

Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe's antimatter, allowing matter to dominate the cosmos ...

On November 12, 2025, a ripple passed through the fabric of spacetime and triggered alarms at three gravitational-wave ...

The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of supermassive black holes. These giants, weighing millions to billions of times ...

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...