A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

Supermassive black holes spiral towards each other in this simulation created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that shows how they glow in ultraviolet and X-ray light. The black holes are only 40 ...

Astronomers have finally captured an image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Because black holes emit no light and appear extremely small from Earth, ...

Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado reveals how these intergalactic envoys could help prove the quantum n ...

Two Westchester County high school seniors have each earned $25,000 awards after being named finalists in one of the nation’s most prestigious science competitions. Jashvi Desai of Yorktown Heights ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations. Researchers are investigating an unusual event in deep space that has left scientists ...

New 3D map of the early universe from HETDEX reveals faint hydrogen light linking galaxies 9 to 11 billion years ago.

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form.

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an ...

Forces have mediator particles. Electromagnetism is mediated by the photons, for example. So most of the decay of this excited dark matter particle would be this unknown mediator. The excited state ...