The Big Bang made matter and antimatter in equal measure, so where did all the antimatter go? This cosmic imbalance may hold ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to revolutionize our understanding of the universe. The telescope’s ...

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

The merger resulted in a combined black hole 225 times our sun’s mass, and challenges current astrophysical models of black ...

With the discovery of Infinity Galaxy, researchers believe they have found evidence of a direct collapse black hole by ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...