A new paper makes the strange case for prime numbers at the heart of physics. Like physics, math has its own set of " fundamental particles " — the prime numbers, which can't be broken down into ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

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By analyzing the data from various space observatories and ground-based telescopes, European astronomers have performed a ...

New ALMA observations reveal a complex network of gas filaments in the Milky Way’s central 650 light-years, enabling detailed studies of star formation in extreme galactic conditions.

The extraordinarily rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe puzzles astronomers, with current models ...

"We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

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 ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

The results reveal that our universe is reverberating with cosmic collisions. Some of the waves stem from pairs of black ...