Universe

Astronomers discovered the most distant source of radio emission known to date

With the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered and studied in detail the most distant source...

The heaviest black hole collision might be a boson star merger, study

The result would provide the first observational evidence for a long sought dark matter candidate.

Shedding light on the cosmic origin of the heaviest elements on the periodic table

Meteorites remember conditions of stellar explosions.

Streams of cold gas provisioned early, massive galaxies

The larger the galaxy, the more cold gas it needs to coalesce and grow.

Dark matter could have formed supermassive black holes, study

The result has key implications for cosmology in the early Universe.

Large galaxies strip star-forming gases from their small satellite galaxies

These are the deepest observations and the largest sample of atomic and molecular gas in the local Universe.

A map of the sky showing over 25,000 supermassive black holes

Most detailed celestial map in the field of so-called low radio frequencies.

First black hole ever detected is more massive than we thought

The study questions astronomers what they know about the Universe’s most mysterious objects.

A radical new approach to determining how our Universe works

Quantum collaboration gives new gravity to the mysteries of the Universe.

Portrait of a young galaxy challenged our understanding of galaxy formation

Portrait of young galaxy throws theory of galaxy formation on its head.

An unusual kind of stellar explosion discovered in the milky way center

Rare blast’s remains discovered in milky way center.

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