Nov. 6, 2026 After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two ...

Johns Hopkins researchers suspect super-hot discs seen using data from the James Webb Space Telescope could contain the ...

Using sheets of light to corral waves of ultracold atoms, researchers have created an experimental platform for studying the ...

Astrophysicists think that the supermassive black holes (SMBH) we see in the modern universe are the result of a long, ...

Researchers have used radio observations of rapidly spinning neutron stars to search for signals from supermassive black hole pairs at the dawn of galaxy formation.

Optical illusions can be quite the mind-boggling experience. Growing up, there were plenty of images with colors and patterns ...

Every black hole hides a question at its center. Einstein's theory predicts that whatever falls in is crushed into a singularity, a point of infinite density where the theory itself breaks down. Most ...

Astronomers have found thousands of planets orbiting other stars. They’ve even found some rogue planets, or planets without a star. Now, fascinating new research says more planets could be lurking ...

If you want to understand the origins of black holes, Yale astronomers say, you need to look beyond the centers of galaxies and start searching in the nooks and crannies. That’s where you’ll find the ...

A new simulation suggests little red dots, unusually compact objects seen in photos from space, might be one stage in the evolution of black holes. So-called little red dots, astronomical objects that ...

Astronomers have discovered that winds from a supermassive black hole are about 100 times more powerful than previously thought. XRISM observations showed the resulting turbulence spreading roughly ...

When two black holes find each other in the vastness of space, they can form a binary odd couple—and it’s more common than researchers expected. Scientists think most black holes are born when a star ...