So this is what it is like to play cosmic pinball. The worlds move, and sometimes they line up. Then you find yourself staring up the tube of blackness that is the moon’s shadow, a sudden hole in the ...

A black hole can feel like the most distant and unreal object you could ever think about, yet the way its darkness bends ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With next-generation telescopes, they hope to spot telltale signs of alternative physics ...

Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation ...

Once again, Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity has held up — this time in another galaxy. Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

Researchers from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration have submitted a set of papers to the Astrophysical Journal featuring a groundbreaking new map of dark matter distributed across a ...