How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

To answer Robertson: The Higgs field doesn’t appear to have more valleys to explore, according to our current understanding.

Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

A new model suggests the universe may stop expanding and collapse in a reverse Big Bang, ending in a Big Crunch about 20 ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.