Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

"As yet, nobody has managed to understand what gives rise to this strange phenomenon, and explaining dark energy remains one ...

The sizes of the two binary components are not to scale: in reality, the blue star is about 200,000 times larger than the black hole. Note that the ‘lensing’ effect around ... the newly formed neutron ...

He also has begun exploring AI alternatives to traditional methods of creating CMB lensing maps. Frank Heinrich is a researcher ... National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron ...

This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...

One of the key developments in this field has been the analysis of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers, which include neutron stars and black holes. The Gravitational-Wave Transient ...

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