The EHT captured a surprising polarization reversal around M87*, pointing to rapidly changing magnetic fields near the black ...

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Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

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The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

One of the greatest mysteries in cosmology is the nature of what we refer to as dark energy. This mysterious force drives the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Dark energy is an unknown ...

Falling into a black hole causes time dilation, infinite visual copies, and eventual destruction at the singularity, with supermassive black holes offering the longest survival times. ‘Not ...

HAENAM, South Korea — Sei Young Kim’s eagle on the 17th hole has helped increase her lead to four strokes going into the final round of the BMW Ladies Championship after shooting a 3-under 69 Saturday ...

This summer, astronomers detected a gamma ray burst (GRB) so powerful that they’re still struggling to explain what caused it. These cosmic explosions are typically produced by stars dying in a ...

Radio observations with the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) have, as part of an international observing campaign, helped discover an unprecedented burst of radio activity from a tidal disruption event ...

A black hole that was eaten by a star seems to have gotten revenge by consuming the star from the inside, producing a gamma-ray burst spotted about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The burst, called ...

Astronomers have delivered the first image of two orbiting supermassive black holes. Credit: Mauri J. Valtonen et al. / https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.06744 ...