Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

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

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

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

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

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

Black holes are expected to be the last giant objects left in the universe, but even they will slowly shrink and disappear ...

This research could represent the first documented case of paracetamol production from plastic waste using E. coli bacteria.