Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

Support for science in the U.S.With its new Transatlantic Program, the Max Planck Society aims to strengthen collaboration ...

Scientists have detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves, using the US ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has developed an eco-friendly, very stable, ultra-bright material and used it to generate deep-blue light (emission ...

Since Galileo first observed them through his telescope in the early 1600s, sunspots have fascinated scientists.

Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

Hovering fish aren’t loafing—they burn twice resting energy to make micro-fin tweaks that counteract a natural tendency to ...

Merger creates black holes weighing 240 times the mass of our Sun — the heaviest binary black hole system confirmed through ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 billion light years.

Since the beginning of the Russian offensive against Ukraine, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has ...