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

Look to the stars when Buttonwood Nature Center presents “Astronomy and Our Place in the Universe” on Thursday, February 20 ...

A quasar from the early universe has revealed the longest black hole jet ever detected, spanning 200,000 light-years.

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

For decades, scientists have worked to map the universe’s large-scale structure, testing cosmological models and investigating how galaxies form and evolve. Most studies describe these massive ...

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

In total, they make up 13% of the universe's volume. This image shows the five newly discovered superstructures. Quipu (red) is the largest structure found in the local universe.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...