astrophysics
Listen to the Eerie Sound of Black Hole 'Echoes' for the First Time
Scientists used a “reverberation machine” to listen in on the mind-boggling dynamics surrounding black holes.
Mysterious Expanding Regions of Dark Matter May Challenge Established Physics
Observations of galaxies up to seven billion light-years away revealed a potential conflict with the standard model of cosmology.
Scientists Have Discovered Traces of Stars From the Dawn of Time
The first stars formed using products from the Big Bang, and learning more about them can teach us about how the universe as we know it came to be.
A Quarter of Stars Like Our Sun Eat Their Planets, Study Finds
Stars show chemical traces of past "planetary ingestion" that can be used to search for Earth-like planets.
The Universe Is a Giant Donut That We Live Inside, New Research Suggests
The idea that the universe has a 3D torus shape ties in to some pretty far-out stuff, like the CIA’s 1980s Gateway report on psychic phenomena.
Mysterious Space Signals Line Up With the Cosmic Web Connecting the Universe, Scientists Find
The CHIME collaboration announced the detection of 535 fast radio bursts (FRBs), the biggest haul from a single survey ever.
Scientists Just Found a ‘Restless’ Supermassive Black Hole Wandering in Space
We’ve always thought of supermassive black holes as stationary objects sitting tight while everything swirls around them. Until now.
NASA Needs Your Help Hunting Exoplanets in the Search for Alien Life
At a time when many people are stuck at home, Planet Patrol provides a “community pursuing the common goal of understanding the universe and our place in it,” according to the project leader.
An Astrophysicist Calculated the Last Big Explosions Before the Universe Dies
The last supernovas before the universe dies in a heat death will be twice-dead ancient relics on a mind-boggling time scale, according to astrophysicist Matt Caplan.
Scientists Discovered a Gigantic Structure in a Hidden Zone of Space
An international team of scientists has discovered a filament of a fundamental structure known as the cosmic web hiding in the 'Zone of Avoidance,' and it's one of the biggest structures ever seen by humans.
Scientists Captured a Planet's Birth and It Is Terrifying and Beautiful
The new image could be the first direct evidence of the site of a planet's fiery birth in interstellar space.
A Black Hole’s Energy Beam is Seemingly Breaking the Laws of Physics
New observations reveal that an “extraordinary” optical illusion on a massive scale is making a jet from the galaxy 3C 279 appear to move 20 times faster than the speed of light.