The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

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

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

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

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...