In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have successfully discovered 53 new quasars powered by supermassive black holes ...

A stronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...

A team of scientists has an unusual explanation for how and when dark matter — the invisible, mysterious stuff that’s theorized to make up most of the matter in the universe — was formed. The theory ...

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth ...

Supermassive black holes have been known to belch gigantic beams of plasma into space – and now scientists have managed to recreate these fireballs in a lab at CERN. Although black holes are famous ...

Voyager 1—the most distant human-made object—has made yet another remarkable discovery having to do with interstellar space. It’s steady, persistent, and long-lasting: a low-frequency hum that’s ...

Plasma is one of the most powerful states of matter - and this video takes it to the extreme. Watch as a giant plasma cannon ...

An astrophotographer captured a structure that looked like a plasma waterfall on the sun. The structure is believed to be around 60,000-miles-tall. This is the latest in a string of stunning solar ...

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