An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...

It may well take years to prove, but a pair of University of Miami astrophysicists could be on the verge of a cosmic ...

An international team led by a researcher at the Chiba Institute of Technology has discovered an extremely rare phenomenon: a ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

2023 Discovery Hints at Possibly the Largest Supermassive Black Hole Detected ...

In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical calculations to show this: If sufficient mass could be placed into an ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...

A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent ...

An international team led by a researcher at the Chiba Institute of Technology has discovered an extremely rare phenomenon: a ...

In 2020, astronomers discovered a violent cosmic event that has led them to rethink how extreme pairs of astronomical objects form. These pairs are capable of producing powerful cosmic collisions.

UO astronomer Yvette Cendes and her team published their findings in The Astrophysical Journal. These findings involve a supermassive black hole shredding a star and the climbing energy emitted from ...

A new image from the European Southern Observatory reveals a gas cloud orbiting the Milky Way’s central black hole, offering ...