New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...