Astronomers have found a potential new piece of the ongoing puzzle over “little red dots” (LRDs). It’s a distant smudge in ...

Runaway black holes have moved from theoretical oddity to observed reality, and the picture they paint is as unsettling as it is awe inspiring. Instead of sitting quietly at galactic centers, some of ...

1.3 billion years ago, two orbiting massive black holes, circling each other at 250 times a second, collided in a violent, ...

Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas cocoon. Others argue the object is nothing special ...

The signal lasted for seven hours, and its duration and intensity suggest previously unknown processes in the universe.

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions in black hole images captured by the Event Horizon Telescope can act as ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

York was the first researcher to find an isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium, which helped give researchers an understanding of dark matter.

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cosmos. How old is the universe?Could a solar flare destroy the ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the ...