Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

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

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

A cosmic explosion unlike any seen before has prompted astronomers to rethink long-standing ideas about the universe’s most ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope uncovers clues about a mysterious cosmic blast that defies expectationsA Rutgers ...

A peculiar celestial couple has been identified about 3,800 light-years away, in the constellation Centaurus. Designated Gaia ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Satellite megaconstellations are increasingly impacting astronomical observations. Bright satellite streaks are compromising ...