NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

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

How are supermassive black holes born? That is the question astronomer Elena Maria Rossi is trying to answer. But how do you investigate something you cannot see? Supermassive black holes are the ...

In the new study, researchers statistically calculated that supermassive black holes in some of the early galaxies seen by ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

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

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...

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