Astronomers Uncover “Mysterious Giant” Lurking Behind Binary Black Holes
Binary black hole merger near a supermassive black hole. Credit: SHAO GW190814’s gravitational waves suggest a hidden supermassive…
New Measurements Show We May Live in a Giant “Cosmic Void”
New research suggests we may live in a vast cosmic void, a region with far fewer galaxies and…
Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues
Dark energy—the hypothetical force accelerating our universe’s expansion—sometimes raises more questions than it answers. A new study, however,…
What Came Before the Big Bang? New Study Says ‘Numerical Relativity’ Could Unlock Cosmology’s Biggest Mysteries
It is one of cosmology’s most perplexing questions: what happened before the Big Bang? Although the question has…
New sound proof we’re living in a giant void
Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighborhood is packed full of planets, stars…
Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe
Following the Big Bang, our universe expanded at an exponential rate. According to this theory, known as cosmic…