How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

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

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

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

Black holes are expected to be the last giant objects left in the universe, but even they will slowly shrink and disappear ...

This research could represent the first documented case of paracetamol production from plastic waste using E. coli bacteria.

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...