Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

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

Speculative new research outlines a method for detecting extraterrestrial civilizations: by catching the gravitational waves produced by the collapse, or failure, of their warp drives. Sounds wild ...

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 ...

In related research, Professors Pankaj Joshi and Sudip Bhattacharyya proposed that gravitational collapse in the early universe could have produced primordial naked singularities (PNaSs).

Gravitational waves of this scale are the ... universe might have concentrated pockets of matter enough for them to collapse into black holes. These incredibly massive, largely invisible ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy. Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI ...

"And it's central to the emergence of fascinating phenomena in our universe such as gravitational waves ... a mysterious effect referred to as the 'collapse of the wave function.'" ...

According to the nebular hypothesis, our star system formed from the gravitational collapse of part of a giant molecular cloud, most likely at the edge of a Wolf-Rayet bubble. (More on these in a ...