An ultramassive black hole so huge it could swallow 30 billion suns has emerged from the cosmic background, revealed not by ...

If you got into a spaceship and traveled long enough and fast enough, could you eventually loop back to where you started?

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.

In the world of sports, it is easy to find oneself immersed in an ocean of knowledge. So many different types of sports, each ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...

In the heart of a distant spiral galaxy, a cosmic storm has erupted. This event is unlike anything astronomers have seen ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.