As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

A supermassive black hole 17 billion times the sun’s mass consumes the equivalent of one sun per day and shines 500 trillion ...

The singularity of a black hole represents not a point in space but the end of time itself, beyond human understanding.

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics have discovered that radiation and jets from supermassive black holes ...

Black hole activities suppress the birth of new stars around it, shows a new study that can help in a deeper understanding of how galaxies evolve and may provide answers to why some have very low ...

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

Meghie Rodrigues talks to Brazilian astronomer Thaisa Storchi Bergmann about curiosity, black holes and current challenges in ...

The recent study by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) marks a transformative moment in astrophysics, providing ...

They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and clusters with its gravity. Now, researchers say they have spotted the smallest ...