Astronomers have performed very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of a gamma-ray loud blazar known as TXS ...

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

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Recently, physics professor Robert Scherrer crunched the numbers to figure out what would happen if a low-mass black hole ...

Scientists have discovered a red giant star orbiting a quiet black hole in the Gaia BH2 system, challenging assumptions about stellar chemistry and evolution.

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...

A small but incredibly fast unwanted guest is about to swing past Earth at the speed of light. Yeah, this is the tiniest ...

The goal of the Thirty Metre Telescope project is to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before, studying black holes, ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...