The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

Our sun may be responsible for life on Earth, but stars across the galaxy are also responsible for creating a plethora of ...

Led by researcher Ragadeepika Pucha from the University of Utah, a team of scientists have identified thousands of new dwarf ...

Not all big stars become neutron stars. After a supernova occurs, some stars can collapse into black holes. This is usually when the star’s remnants are too dense that light can’t even escape the ...

be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton telescope have made an unexpected discovery—two supernova remnants in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

Earth may someday survive on nuclear fusion by using tokamaks. These donut-shaped machines confine plasma with magnetic ...

“Scary Barbie” (also known as AT2021lwx) is the informal name given by scientists to a phenomenon that is referred to as a ...