The binary black holes in the universe are already astonishing enough, but researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made a groundbreaking ...

A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they’re not sure which. The so-called mass gap ...

Indian astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of a gamma-ray emitting compact symmetric object known as DA 362. Results of the study, presented in a research paper published December 17 on ...

The LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA collaboration searches the universe for gravitational waves produced by the mergers of black holes and neutron stars. It has now announced the detection of a signal indicating a ...

A bewilderingly powerful mystery object found in a nearby galaxy and only visible so far in millimeter radio wavelengths could be a brand new astrophysical object unlike anything astronomers have seen ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) -- Northwestern University astrophysicists were among those involved in an international research collaboration that has detected a gravitational-wave signal caused by a merger of ...

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with other researchers, has developed a new method to estimate how stellar-mass compact objects ...

Researchers who used a telescope in South Africa report discovery of an object in the Milky Way that could either be the most massive neutron star ever observed, or the least massive black hole.

Astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team's novel technique might also ...

LAS VEGAS, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Inspired by NASA's Artimus program and America's re-commitment to the stars, BOXABL today highlighted UFO (Unidentified Folding Object), a conceptual off-world ...