Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

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Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

According to the research shared at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, the observed X-ray oscillations are believed to originate from a compact white ...

Astronomers have observed strange behaviors in a distant black hole. Plasma jets are moving fast, and X-ray flashes are ...

Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...

A distant supermassive black hole, the mysterious 1ES 1927+654, emits X-ray pulses unlike anything previously recorded, which MIT astronomers hypothesize results from a cosmic balancing act.