Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...

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 ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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.