The researchers suggest that the cosmic microwave background — a faint glow left over from the Big Bang — might carry the ...

Scientists investigate gravitational wave memory theory by Einstein, searching for traces in the cosmic microwave background.

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves warp spacetime. In the process, they could imprint ...

This artist’s illustration depicts a dwarf galaxy that hosts an active galactic nucleus — an actively feeding black hole. In the background are many other dwarf galaxies hosting active black holes, as ...

Scientists have discovered an extraordinarily massive black hole weighing an astounding 36 billion solar masses, challenging ...

The foreground and background galaxies are in such perfect alignment that they create an Einstein ring. New research into the Cosmic Horseshoe reveals the presence of an ultra-massive black hole ...

A new map of cosmic expansion suggests that dark energy evolves over time, hinting that the universe doesn’t work the way we ...

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Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The Illuminate are moving somehow moving a massive black hole toward Super Earth, which could spell immediate doom.

A newly discovered ultra-massive black hole (UMBH), weighing an astonishing 36 billion times the mass of the Sun, is ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) team has captured the clearest images of the universe in its earliest stages—when it ...