Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...

Physicists have long imagined space and time interweaving into “space-time”, the metaphorical fabric that underlies the cosmos. But there may be something even more fundamental. Instead of ...

Supermassive black holes, billions of times heavier than the Sun, sit at the centres of galaxies. Despite their darkness, they emit bright signals when gas spirals around them. Detecting hidden ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric ... of these black holes could reveal the region of space in which they ...

The researchers concluded that a significant portion of the LRDs are likely galaxies hosting growing black holes at their centers. A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data ...

Two black holes “locked in a death spiral,” he writes, “launched a tsunami of tortured space-time” — gravitational waves that reverberated across the cosmos and, notably in 2015 ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of ... For instance, these giant tears in space-time may help limit a galaxy's size by drawing it towards a gravitational center or consuming vast ...

An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a region at the center of a galaxy where a supermassive black hole is actively consuming surrounding material ... Max Planck Institute for Astronomy revealed ...