Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally displayed high carbon levels. Astronomers believed that relatively heavier ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it could be a dense clump of dark matter roughly 100 times smaller than any ...

Astrophotographer David Joyce, based in Kentucky, offers us a spectacular window into the cosmic remains of a giant star that ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

What is the biggest object in the universe? Learn more about the biggest objects in the universe, including galaxies, galaxy clusters, and dark matter. The biggest objects in the universe are clusters ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have detected two extraordinary gravitational wave events that may have come from black holes formed in earlier ...

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson continues to dismiss the hypothesis of a Harvard University professor that a ...