A decade ago, physicists using twin detectors in Washington State and Louisiana detected gravitational waves—subtle ripples ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

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Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...