New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

Shutterstock Astronomers have known that black holes exist for some time. Ever since Einstein’s general theory of relatively, ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...