"We studied the last several orbits before the merger, when the entwined magnetic fields undergo rapid and dramatic changes, ...

We often blame our stars for the relationships that do not go as planned. Instead of enriching our lives, some connections ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

Standing on a neutron star would not feel like standing on anything at all. The gravity is so extreme that the human body ...

Merger of two neutron stars in the aftermath of a supernova may have been observed for the first time, though questions ...

However, there's another point in fermionic dark matter's favor. The Gaia spacecraft's map of the Milky Way – the most ...

Under the leadership of the University of Bonn, a research team led by Prof. Dr. Pavel Kroupa from the Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics has discovered that galaxy clusters are ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

Scientists discovered that galaxy clusters are about twice as heavy as previously assumed. The additional mass comes mainly ...

What survives a black hole: an additional black hole, or a neutron star? Recalculations put the two at the same clock and the one change flows all the way to a surprisingly earlier time of the “last ...

It’s much sooner than you think.

Galaxy clusters, the largest structures held together by gravity in the universe, may be far heavier than scientists once ...