New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...