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

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

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

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

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

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

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

The famous black hole M87 keeps surprising us. New research calculates its spin speed to be at 80% of the theoretical limit, ...

New calculations have revealed that the super-energetic jets produced by spinning black holes could be a source for elusive dark matter particles ...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.