With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

Black holes have long captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike, with their immense gravity and enigmatic nature. For years, the mysteries surrounding these cosmic giants have ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...