At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very unlikely." ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

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

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

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

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

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...