A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...

Another interesting consequence of relativity is that as time stretches out at high speeds, distances diminish. It’s hard to ...

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NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous ...

A supermassive black hole 17 billion times the sun’s mass consumes the equivalent of one sun per day and shines 500 trillion ...

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The sounds aren't just a scientific curiosity, though. The tenuous gas and plasma that drifts between the galaxies in galaxy ...

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

Ultra-low frequency nanohertz gravitational waves emanating from pulsars may be revealing the fabric of the universe.