Harvard scientist Avi Loeb warns that 3I/ATLAS could be an extraterrestrial “Trojan horse” whose presence has major ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

Astronomers have discovered that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Circinus galaxy is feeding through two ...

Gravitational Waves: Ripples in spacetime caused by massive objects moving, though these are incredibly hard to detect from distant binary black holes. Orbital Motion: Observing how the black holes ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

From energy and manufacturing to health care and communications, breakthroughs in these sectors are frequently rooted in ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.