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

An artist's rendering of a binary black hole merger. (Carl Knox/Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...

There are other ways of making these mindless eating machines, as well, including smashing neutron stars together, letting ...

The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.

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

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

Black hole GW190412 has been caught speeding away from its birth site at about 112,000 miles per hour (180,000 kilometers per hour).

For the first time, a binary black hole merger, observed in November 2024, has been linked with a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), a phenomenon that was previously thought impossible. This unprecedented ...

A neutron star and black hole (GW200105) were detected merging along an unusual oval orbit, challenging theories about how ...

Space-time is being driven apart. Every second that passes, the universe expands faster and faster. What is propelling this dramatic acceleration is an enigma, though – one scientists have known about ...

A team of astronomers from NASA have detected several strange and unexplained "little red dots" that are travelling through ...