NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

A spinning neutron star orbits the remnants of a once-massive companion it has stripped to its core.

Scientists have accurately predicted space-time disturbances caused by two black holes, utilizing abstract mathematical ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

Are black holes a real threat to Earth and humanity? These cosmic giants are ready to consume everything in its way, and not ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

As telescopes gaze into space, they also peer back in time. Starlight takes years—sometimes billions—to reach Earth, letting ...

New data from space telescopes has been transformed into cosmic soundscapes, turning the mysterious activity around black ...

Scientists have just calculated that our universe will end much sooner than previously thought—although "soon" is still an ...