Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they ...

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

A new article published in The Astrophysical Journal explores a new theory of how Type Ia supernovae, the powerful stellar ...

Astronomers once struggled to measure the true size of the universe. Then came the discovery of Type Ia supernovae — ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at most—only once every 100,000 years. But new research published in Physical Review ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

A discovery involving researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has, for the first time, revealed millisecond ...