In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first ...

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

Scientists in the United States have discovered the biggest-known merger of two black holes using gravitational wave ...

A black hole is a celestial body with an extremely powerful gravitational force, so strong that even light cannot escape it.

It's a scene that could evoke popular fantasy stories, with sparkling stars shining above misty mountaintops, but the James ...

A collaborative team has revealed new observational evidence that sheds light on the mystery of massive star formation. Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the ...

Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit.

"If this is a massive star, it is a collapse unlike anything we have ever witnessed before." Astronomers have spotted a cosmic explosion of high-energy gamma-rays unlike any ever seen before. The ...

Scientists from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory have uncovered the process of gas accretion in star formation, shedding light on how gas flows towards a forming star's disk.