Have you ever caught a glimpse of a shadow moving through the forest, only to realize it was a living panther, black as midnight? There’s an undeniable magic to the sight—a blend of mystery and wild ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...

When you hear the phrase "bird brain," you probably imagine someone forgetful or silly. After all, we often joke about how ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

Using a neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes, astronomers have found that the one at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, likely rotates at maximum speed.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...