"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very unlikely." ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

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

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late ...

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