The black holes sit in the centres of faraway galaxies. They stayed dark for years before tearing into massive stars. After ...

Scientists have long puzzled over a discrepancy in how fast the universe is expanding, but new, sharper data from the James ...

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

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A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

ripping apart every atom inside the body," said NASA in a press release. Magnetars are thought to originate when a star goes supernova, exploding and collapsing into an ultra-dense neutron star.

Some are active, feeding on massive amounts of surrounding matter—sometimes as much as several suns per year. While most of ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...