Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter’s Fingerprint in a Black Hole Collision
Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may hold subtle clues about one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark…
An astronaut aboard the ISS has captured a fireball in the atmosphere
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the cupola inside the ISS. NASA has recently unveiled an image…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Finally Find the Milky Way’s Missing Neutron Stars
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could uncover one of the Milky Way’s biggest hidden populations: invisible…
Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking
look up! Asteroid 2026 JH2 is now approaching Earth; the object, which is about 20 meters (66 feet)…
With a mass of about 50 billion times that of the Sun, this black hole is one of the largest ever discovered
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a black hole in the universe. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
Extreme lensing signatures revealed by correlations of simulated black hole movies
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al. First M87 Event Horizon Telescope results. I. The shadow of the…
Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
In 1967, a Cambridge student spotted a ‘scruffy’ printout blip that revealed the universe’s mysterious ticking stars
In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered an unusual, regularly pulsing radio signal. This led to the identification of…
Japanese researchers gain glimpse into the universe’s first stars
A tiny galaxy discovered more than 13 billion light-years from Earth may offer the clearest evidence yet of…
The Universe may have begun inside a black hole, not a Big Bang
For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the…
A thin atmosphere on a small world beyond Pluto
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Scientists Uncover the Surprising Source of Strange Clouds Near the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers have uncovered evidence that a massive binary star near the center of the Milky Way may be…