Read A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled ...

Was the Big Bang really the beginning of the universe, or are we 'bouncing' between periods of expansion and contraction? A ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would ...

The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...

Scientists say supermassive black holes that smash together particles at near light speeds could potentially replace ...

New particle accelerators are to be built to detect dark matter. There are much larger ones in space that could be used, say ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious and fascinating objects in the universe, known for their immense gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape. But among them, there are ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...