The investigative minds at How to Survive utilize general relativity to explain the spaghettification and temporal distortion ...

A single particle cut through the Mediterranean in February 2023 carrying an almost absurd amount of energy. Detected deep ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

An illustration of two stellar-mass black holes merging in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus. (Shu-Rui Zhang) ...

Hawking radiation is slowly erasing black holes over unimaginable timescales. This video explains the physics behind virtual particles at the event horizon, the fate of primordial black holes, and the ...

Hundreds of mysterious objects have appeared in images captured by the Webb space telescope. The curious dots could reshape scientists’ understanding of the cosmos.

Scientists found exotic prime numbers may play a role in black hole physics, revealing a surprising connection between number theory and the extreme environments of the universe.

A neutron star and black hole (GW200105) were detected merging along an unusual oval orbit, challenging theories about how ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...

University of Oregon astronomer Yvette Cendes made a surprising discovery years after a black hole shredded a star. What is "Jetty McJetface"?