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

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from experts.

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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

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

Unraveling the mysteries of time, gravitational fields, quantum mechanics, and more means that every day is cause for wonder.

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to Caltech’s latest supercomputer simulations, we’re getting a front-row seat to the whole ...

The Milky Way black hole is much closer, about 27,000 light-years away. A light year is 5.9 trillion miles. The project cost nearly $60 million with $28 million coming from the U.S. National ...