Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson, professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. Besides doing ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...