An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

University of Oregon astronomer Yvette Cendes made a surprising discovery years after a black hole shredded a star. What is "Jetty McJetface"?

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

A neutron star and black hole were detected merging along an unusual oval orbit, challenging long-held theories about how ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller ...

Black holes "are surely governed by some beautiful structures." The post Scientists Say Something Bizarre Is Hiding Inside ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

The longest-lived stars in the cosmos may not survive for 101100 years after all. A new theoretical estimate places the ...

In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions ...

A single particle cut through the Mediterranean in February 2023 carrying an almost absurd amount of energy. Detected deep ...