The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted ...

Breakthroughs in science often begin with a simple question and years of tireless exploration. From the way tiny molecules ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

Recent findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument suggest the possibility of new physics that extends beyond the ...

critical phenomena in gravitational collapse, the initial value problem of general relativity, and relativistic astrophysics. Research in gravitational physics is currently being conducted in JILA.

Star formation is a dynamic process, involving the gravitational collapse of giant clouds of gas and dust over timescales of a million years or more. By measuring the particulars of the collapse ...

According to this idea, triple systems like Altjira didn’t come from collisions but instead formed during a gravitational collapse. This happens when clumps of gas and dust in space come ...