Astronomers have captured the first radio image of two supermassive black holes orbiting each other within the quasar OJ287, ...

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

Two decades later, von Laue gifted the items to Margarete Hommrich, an Einstein admirer from Braunschweig. Her family kept ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

Periodically, the European Space Agency (ESA) releases images that provide breathtaking views of the cosmos, courtesy of its ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

A group of astronomers has uncovered a rare celestial configuration that’s rewriting what we know about how dark matter ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...