The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several landing craft have crashed or toppled over. With ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

A new Major Order looms in Helldivers 2 as a wormhole drifts from Meridia toward Super Earth. Will the Helldivers rise to the ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT Collaboration (Music: Azul Cobalto) ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars." Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...