A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with other researchers, has developed a new method to estimate how stellar-mass compact objects ...

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Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s ...

Astronomers say 3I/ATLAS is so unusual that it is forcing a rethink of probability distributions used to model interstellar ...

A supernova from the early universe looks unexpectedly familiar, challenging ideas about how the first massive stars lived ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has already rewritten the rulebook on what a visitor from deep space can look like, and now scientists are confronting yet another puzzling signal in a growing list of ...