When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic events in space, particularly mergers of binary black hole systems, for ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Recent astronomical observations have unveiled unexpected patterns in the spins of galaxies throughout the universe, leaving ...

Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before.

SXS- Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes -is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic events in space ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have uncovered a new way these cosmic monsters unleash their power.

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave's complete journey from the infinite past to the infinite future as it encounters a black hole.

Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar. The universe is full of spectacular and ...

Primordial black holes that formed during the earliest moments of the universe could have swollen quickly to supermassive sizes, complex cosmological simulations have revealed. The discovery could ...