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

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

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

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

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

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

Very massive stars, over 100 times the mass of the sun, eject significant amounts of matter through powerful stellar winds before collapsing into black holes.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

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.

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...