Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...

(NewsNation) — A team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way galaxy that could shed light on the formation of black holes. The object could be an actual black hole, or it ...

An international collaboration of physicists has made measurements to better understand how matter falls into black holes and ...

As civilizations grow and mature, if humanity so far is anything to go by, they require a lot more energy to sustain themselves. A number of power-supply options for advanced civilizations have been ...

Ultimately, we do not understand where glitches come from or exactly what's going on inside pulsars. What do you get when you stare at the same dead star for more than 20 years? Insight into the ...

Two nearby black holes were discovered using precise star position data. These black holes are unique because they don't actively pull in nearby matter. Radio wave observations confirmed the lack of ...

You can’t beat a quasar for general awesomeness. When they were first discovered in the 1960s, nobody could imagine what those pinpoints of light could be: they looked like stars, but they were so ...