Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observations of distant galaxies conflicting ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba and The University of Tokyo have discovered that radio waves emitted from primordial ...

Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle ...

An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some ...

This year, LIGO’s detection hits a 10-year-old milestone of its discovery. Faculty and staff from UTRGV and legacy ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

Since the early 20th century, scientists have gathered compelling evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating ...