Astrophysics

A supernova remnant in the Milky Way galaxy Chandra X-ray Observatory After a star explodes in a supernova, the remnants …

When galaxy clusters collided, the dark matter (blue) sailed ahead of the normal matter (orange) W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko When …

How do enormous black holes merge? Jurik Peter/Shutterstock Supermassive black holes sometimes merge, but for decades, astrophysicists have not known …

Huge stars collapsing or colliding create gamma ray bursts NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ A. Simonnet, Sonoma State University The …

Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. Using supercomputers at the U.S. …

If traversable wormholes exist, we could potentially detect their plasma blasts Rostislav Zatonskiy / Alamy Wormholes that are surrounded by …

We’ve seen the waterfall of matter plunging into a black hole Buradaki / Alamy Stock Photo A strange area around …

We may have a clearer understanding of why the accretion disc around large black holes is so bright Dana Berry/SkyWorks …

This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a …

This artist’s illustration shows a cross-section of the supermassive black hole and surrounding material in the center of our galaxy. …