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

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

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

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

Supermassive black holes, on the other hand, have masses equivalent to millions, or even billions, of suns crammed into a space no more than a few billion miles wide. For context, the solar system ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Credit: Wolfgang Steffen, UNAM At first glimpse, it may seem like infant stars and supermassive black holes have very little in common. The team behind this research reached that conclusion when ...

playing a game of peek-a-boo with an orbiting spacecraft through a strangely shaped hole in the clouds. Vesuvius is a 4,203-foot-tall (1,281 meters) stratovolcano located next to the city of ...

Timelapse images show China's rapid construction of a military complex that U.S. officials say is on track to be at least 10 ...

Such regions are known by scientists as coronal holes. They are areas where the Sun's magnetic fields have opened up, allowing solar wind to escape freely into space. Coronal holes, which are most ...

An electronic storage space, such as a memory ... at 828 metres. The holes to be filled are 100 nanometres in diameter and 10,000 nanometres deep, i.e. the ratio is 100 to 1.