An international team led by Monash University has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light ...

General relativity stands as one of the bedrock theories in modern physics. Its strange view of relative time and space has been confirmed by countless experimental and observational tests, from ...

A view of the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster, one of the most massive objects in the universe, shows the ...

The gravitational wave signal, captured byLIGO in November 2025, has sparked a revolutionary hypothesis: the collision that produced the signal might not have involved conventional stellar black holes ...

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...

Scientists move closer to confirming a possible supermassive black hole binary pair hidden in a distant galaxy.

Scientists have edged closer to discover the universe's long-held mystery surrounding the existence of primordial black holes ...

A team of astronomers have studied two black holes that merged into a massive new one, confirming a 50-year-old theory that ...

On Wednesday, researchers released an analysis suggesting that there’s a “mass gap” in the population of black holes that ...

In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical calculations to show this: If sufficient mass could be placed into an ...

Where is the closest black hole to Earth? Well, they're pretty hard to find, so the record-holder keeps getting updated. Currently, it's an unassuming black hole called Gaia BH1. But research has ...

On November 12, 2025, a ripple passed through the fabric of spacetime and triggered alarms at three gravitational-wave ...