Einstein's general theory of relativity predicted that so-called 'plunging regions' around black holes would accelerate ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has outdone a record it previously set. On Thursday, the space agency announced its JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADE) team has discovered the ...
Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the universe's missing dark matter. But a new theory suggests ...
This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive ...
This change "is analogous to changing the direction of a new battleship in a few minutes," researcher Gerrit Schellenberger ...
"Frame dragging is an effect present around all spinning black holes." The "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a ...
How deep is NASA James Webb Space Telescope 's vision? It is apparently so deep that it made a cosmic-shattering discovery, ...
A newly discovered galaxy has just smashed the record for the earliest seen yet, presenting a major challenge to our current ...
"Studies of magnetic fields in massive stars in galaxies with young stellar populations provide crucial information on the ...
STAR Trek fans are disappointed to learn that Vulcan — the home planet of the beloved character Spock — does not really exist ...
Astronomers at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere have a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins, by using the wobbly aftermath ...
A James Webb Telescope image shows the J0148 quasar circled in red. Two insets show, on top, the central black hole, and on bottom, the stellar emission from the host galaxy. A team of MIT astronomers ...