Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Neutrinos lie at the frontier of scientific unknowns about the universe. However, there’s a problem—neutrinos also like to ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...

A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.

Astrophysics professor Wendy Freedman discussed her career and award-winning research on the Hubble constant.

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe ...

Sebastian Currier’s “Mysterium” is based on the husband-and-wife team of scientist Robbert Dijkgraaf and novelist Pia de Jong.

While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

The superstructure "Quipu," recently identified, spans 1.3 billion light-years, challenging our understanding of the ...