We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

The cosmic snowball, made up of frozen gases, dust and rock, is hurling past Earth at around 135,000 mph. Its orbital period ...

They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

By zeroing in on the infrared scale, researchers offer details of the black hole jet stream in faraway galaxy M87.

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it ...

Using CO (J=1–0) molecular line data obtained from the 13.7-meter millimeter-wave telescope at the Purple Mountain ...

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Scientists are confident that dark matter exists because of its gravitational effects on a grand scale in the universe ...