As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their candidacy as a potential source of dark matter. But, if they existed, they also had ...

Quasars are the bright centers of young galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. Most quasars are very distant and faint, making them difficult to observe. One quasar, 0957+561, is ...

The densest cluster of supermassive black holes identified in the Universe. The background image was taken by Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The red and blue shadows represent the density ...

As two distant galaxies trade blows in an ancient duel billions of years old, one belligerent has clearly proven itself more ruthless than the other. Each time the galaxies conclude their posturing ...

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Space might seem calm when gazing up at the night sky, but invisible waves ripple continuously through the universe, bending space and time. These waves, known as gravitational waves, carry crucial ...

Astrophysicist Jeremy Darling from the University of Colorado Boulder is on a quest to find a new way of measuring the universe’s gravitational wave background—the steady flow of waves that ripple ...

Posted: April 9, 2025 | Last updated: July 10, 2025 The Gemini North telescope and Subaru Telescope have been used to discover most distant merging quasars yet, "seen over 900 million years after the ...

Quasar Alpha, a highly advanced AI model currently undergoing pre-release testing on OpenRouter, is pushing the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can achieve in coding, animation, and ...