Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat's Eye Nebula.

Using the MeerKAT telescope, South African scientists have detected a record-breaking radio laser from a distant galaxy, ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

As foretold, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—among the most powerful heavy-ion colliders in the world, second only to CERN’s LHC—ran its final particles and ceased operations last Friday. This is ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Milky Way's chaotic and violent heart has been producing three mysterious signals, which scientists say could be coming from a particular kind of dark matter. Could this hypothetical substance be the ...

Gravitationally lensed starlight (orange) by a supermassive black hole binary. The Einstein ring is shown in blue. Image credit: Image created by Hanxi Wang. Researchers at Oxford University and the ...

Asupermassive black hole may have been caught in the act of fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000-light-year trail of newborn stars behind it. The observation provides some of the strongest evidence ...

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