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

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

A spinning disk and a smartphone are all that are needed for students to study vibrations analogous to those produced by the ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Primordial black holes, formed in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, may have had the potential to grow at a rapid pace into supermassive black holes, according to new findings from cosmological ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Abell 2255 is a cluster containing between 300 and 500 constituent galaxies, many of which are merging. It's located around ...

A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

A partnership between Macquarie University's Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) and Swinburne University of Technology's Center for Astrophysics & Supercomputing will see Australian teams host and ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...