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Latest in Astrophysics

On Wednesday morning, an international team of scientists will release the first-ever images of black holes. Quite understandably, scientists are pumped.

Here’s Why Everyone’s so Excited About the Black Hole Image

By Dan Robitzski

The goal is to look past the space debris to see its event horizon.

Astronomers Are Teasing the First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole

By Jon Christian

An international team of researchers says it's found 83 new supermassive black holes at extreme end of the visible universe.

Astronomers Just Found 83 Giant Black Holes at Universe’s Edge

By Jon Christian

“Halo Drive” Would Use Black Holes to Power Spaceships

“Halo Drive” Would Use Black Holes to Power Spaceships

By Jon Christian

A new paper suggests that we could spot an alien civilization by looking for signs of starships powered by the radiation thrown off by small black hole.

New SETI Plan: Detect Alien Starships Powered by Black Holes

By Jon Christian

Researchers believe the strange behavior of galaxies could be caused by the combined mass of untold zillions of photons and not dark matter.

New Theory: Mass of Photons Could Explain Effects of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

A philosopher wanted to unify the various field-specific definitions physicists have for black holes. He decided that the variety was good for science.

A Philosopher Is Trying to Figure out What Black Holes Really Are

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists say a new map of how structures of dark matter have grown throughout the life of the universe could upend current understanding of physics.

New Map of Dark Matter Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of Physics

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that supermassive black holes formed in halos of dark matter that serve as "gravitational glue" for galaxies.

New Theory: Vast, Ancient Black Holes Formed Because of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Researchers have captured the best-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Here’s the Best-Ever Image of the Black Hole Devouring Our Galaxy

By Jon Christian

Astronomers spotted an unusual black hole floating through the galaxy. Roughly the size of Jupiter, it's in between the two types of typical black holes.

A Jupiter-Sized Black Hole is Floating Around The Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

A small, levitating glass bead the size of a virus might be the long-awaited key to directly observing dark matter, if new research is to be believed.

A Floating, Virus-Sized Bead Could Help Find Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

New research sheds light on how supermassive black holes, like the one at the center of the Milky Way, get so massive. It takes more than just eating stars.

Astronomers Figured out How Supermassive Black Holes Get so Big

By Dan Robitzski

What happened next was weird, even by the standards of super-dense celestial objects from which not even light can escape: the black hole started to shrink.

A Black Hole Inhaled a Star. Then It Started to Shrink

By Jon Christian

For the first time, astronomers observed the birth of a new, ultra-dense stellar corpse that could be either a black hole or a neutron star.

Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Birth of a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

By watching a black hole devour a star, researchers from MIT were able to determine that it's spinning faster than 50 percent the speed of light.

Here’s Why MIT Scientists Are Watching a Black Hole Devour a Star

By Kristin Houser

Research suggests that it might be possible to safely approach a black hole as long as its big enough and spinning rapidly.

Physicist: Black Holes Could be Portals for Hyperspace Travel

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new theory, the Big Bang also generated a second "anti-universe" that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.

New Theory: “Mirror Image” of Our Universe Existed Before Big Bang

By Jon Christian

The discovery of a relationship between the dark matter in dwarf galaxies and their star formation could help us understand the mysterious material.

New Finding Could Be “Smoking Gun” in Understanding Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology discovered a cloud of gas that was created around the time of the Big Bang.

Astronomers Found Ancient Remains of a Big Bang “Fossil Cloud”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.

Stars Torn From Galaxies Let Astronomers “See” Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

A new dark matter detection study, COSINE-100, may debunk another experiment that claimed to have spotted dark matter. But the two had some key differences.

Two Nearly-Identical Dark Matter Studies Have Conflicting Results

By Dan Robitzski

A researcher at the University of Oxford says a new theory could explain the mystery of dark matter and dark energy — and it's a mind-bender.

An Oxford Scientist May Have Solved the Mystery of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

A team of physicists created a 360 video that takes people on a tour of a realistic simulation of the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way.

360-Degree Video Shows What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

When Galaxies Merge, The Black Holes In Their Hearts Fuse Together

When Galaxies Merge, The Black Holes In Their Hearts Fuse Together

By Jon Christian

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy

By Kristin Houser

NASA's new gamma-ray constellastions

NASA Unveils 21 New Constellations Formed by Black Holes and Other Brutal Space Stuff

By Kristin Houser

Scientists Found a Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter. Here’s What That Means.

Scientists Found a Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter. Here’s What That Means.

By Kristin Houser

Here’s How You Could Survive Being Sucked Into a Black Hole

Here’s How You Could Survive Being Sucked Into a Black Hole

The Timeline of the Big Bang and Everything We Know

The Timeline of the Big Bang and Everything We Know

By Jolene Creighton

Ancient Supermassive Black Hole Unveils Secrets of Early Universe

Ancient Supermassive Black Hole Unveils Secrets of Early Universe

Dark Matter May Be a Product of Gravitational Waves with a Twist

Dark Matter May Be a Product of Gravitational Waves with a Twist

This Year, We’ll See a Black Hole for the First Time in History

This Year, We’ll See a Black Hole for the First Time in History

By Kristin Houser

Scientists Detect New Gravitational Waves from a Black Hole Collision

Scientists Detect New Gravitational Waves from a Black Hole Collision

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Supermassive Black Holes Suggest We May Be Very Wrong About How Our Universe Formed

By Christianna Reedy

Is Dark Matter Decay Causing Antimatter to Smash into Planet Earth?

Is Dark Matter Decay Causing Antimatter to Smash into Planet Earth?

By Chelsea Gohd

We Just Moved One Step Closer to Finally Detecting Dark Matter

We Just Moved One Step Closer to Finally Detecting Dark Matter

Hubble Discovery Suggests We May Need New Physics to Explain Dark Matter

Hubble Discovery Suggests We May Need New Physics to Explain Dark Matter

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Gravitational Waves

ESO Scientists Unveil an “Unprecedented Discovery” About Gravitational Waves

Next Week, Scientists Will Finally Disclose Key Details About Gravitational Waves

Gravitational Waves

Next Week, Scientists Will Finally Disclose Key Details About Gravitational Waves

A New Quantum Atomic Clock May Finally Reveal the Nature of Dark Matter

A New Quantum Atomic Clock May Finally Reveal the Nature of Dark Matter

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New Gravitational Wave Research May Finally Reveal Mysterious “Dark Matter”

Gravitational Waves Will Bring the Extreme Universe Into View

Gravitational Waves

Gravitational Waves Will Bring the Extreme Universe Into View

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Overlooked DNA Leads Researchers to The “Big Bang” of Immune Cell Development

Newly Discovered Black Hole May Be the First of Its Kind Ever Detected

Newly Discovered Black Hole May Be the First of Its Kind Ever Detected

Researchers Have a Theory on How the Lights Went On After the Big Bang

Researchers Have a Theory on How the Lights Went On After the Big Bang

Black Holes Outside Our Galaxy Work Differently From Ours

Black Holes Outside Our Galaxy Work Differently From Ours

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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope May Unveil the Secrets of Dark Matter

10 Amazing Facts You Should Really Know About Black Holes

10 Amazing Facts You Should Really Know About Black Holes

Scientists Are One Step Closer to Finding Dark Matter

Scientists Are One Step Closer to Finding Dark Matter

This Strange Particle Physics Effect Could Help Explain the Physics of Black Holes

This Strange Particle Physics Effect Could Help Explain the Physics of Black Holes

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There Are Missing Black Holes in Our Universe, but There’s a New Way to Find Them

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Gravitational Waves

Scientists Assert That Hidden Dimensions Might Exist in Gravitational Waves

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A Groundbreaking Discovery Just Verified the Existence of Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

By Patrick Caughill

Europe’s Space Program Will Launch a Gravitational Wave Hunting Spacecraft in 2034

Gravitational Waves

Europe’s Space Program Will Launch a Gravitational Wave Hunting Spacecraft in 2034

Researchers Say There’s No Alternative Theory to the Big Bang — Yet

Researchers Say There’s No Alternative Theory to the Big Bang — Yet

Decoding the Gravitational Evolution of Dark Matter Halos

Decoding the Gravitational Evolution of Dark Matter Halos

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Gravitational Waves

LIGO Just Detected the Oldest Gravitational Waves Ever Discovered

Scientists Just Produced A “Molecular Black Hole” Using X-Rays

Scientists Just Produced A “Molecular Black Hole” Using X-Rays

By Christianna Reedy

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Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole May Reveal the Universe’s Hidden Fifth Force

By Christianna Reedy

Astronomers Might Have Finally Taken the First Image of a Black Hole

Astronomers Might Have Finally Taken the First Image of a Black Hole

By Chelsea Gohd

New Research Challenges What We Thought We Knew About the Big Bang

New Research Challenges What We Thought We Knew About the Big Bang

Scientists Have Captured the First-Ever “Image” of a Dark Matter Web

Scientists Have Captured the First-Ever “Image” of a Dark Matter Web

By Patrick Caughill