Astronomers have recently uncovered a colossal dark object outside our Solar System that defies direct observation. This ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

Despite it’s comparative size to our star, it’s still the least massive object ever detected using gravitational lensing.

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are fascinating states of matter that emerge when atoms or molecules are cooled to extremely ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a ‘dark object’ concealed within a warped ‘Einstein ring’ located 10 ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and clusters with its gravity. Now, researchers say they have spotted the smallest ...

Learn more about black holes and what causes them to ring. A massive new study adds evidence to theories by Einstein, Hawking ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...