Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true. Space is stretching faster today than in the past, and the precise ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Image of the galaxy NGC 6505: the Einstein ring created by this gravitational lens can be seen in ...

The universe has a habit of surprising us, revealing its deepest secrets in the most unexpected ways. One such revelation arrived in the form of an astonishing discovery around the elliptical galaxy ...

Turbulent processes take place close to supermassive black holes, which lurk in the centres of nearly all galaxies. They swallow up matter flowing in from the outside while at the same time producing ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot. But how can the sun be a telescope? The sun is not a mirror, but it is a lens. And we ...

In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 and it seems to be smiling You can make out its two orange eyes and white button nose ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new look at distant quasars split by gravity shows the universe may be growing faster than expected. (CREDIT: SpringerNature ...