Scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter.

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious and fascinating objects in the universe, known for their immense gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape. But among them, there are ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

The new image is the stunning achievement of the Event Horizon Telescope project ... black holes for so long that sometimes it’s easy to forget that none of us has ever seen one,” National ...

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and ... Office of Science. DESI is mounted on ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center ... would sketch what the sky looked like in their notebooks. Projects like DASCH and Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard have ...

Black Hole Finder asks citizen scientists to identify singularities in telescope images. Black Hole Finder asks citizen scientists to identify singularities in telescope images. Wes Davis is a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected two galaxies and their supermassive central black holes caught in a merging ... assumed,” said LISA Lead Project Scientist Nora Luetzgendorf ...

At the center of our galaxy lurks a dark, beating heart: Sagittarius A*, a black hole some four million times ... swath of radio wavelengths—and the project can’t easily monitor its targets ...