Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope have developed a new way to observe the radio sky at multiple frequencies, and ...

White holes are theoretical bodies in physics that are basically time-reversed black holes, meaning instead of permanently trapping matter inside themselves, they release it ...

Scientists at NTNU propose that powerful winds from supermassive black holes may be responsible for mysterious ...

The IceCube observatory, installed beneath the ice in Antarctica, has detected a strange signal coming from the galaxy NGC ...

Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy, a mysterious force in the universe, is ...

A new publication introduces the rapidly growing field of multi-messenger gravitational lensing, which combines ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.

Supermassive black holes shoot energy in bullet-like bursts rather than steady winds, affecting galaxy formation.

STEPHANIE BUTTIGIEG is a young Maltese student who is currently an astronomy PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, with her PhD research focusing on supermassive black holes. The Malta ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...