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 ...

The solution to astronomy's "final parsec problem" could come from the dark universe and it could change everything we know about dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses the astronomical unit called a parsec and explains why it can sometimes be misunderstood outside scientific contexts.

All massive galaxies are believed to host supermassive black holes millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun. When galaxies merge — which we know they do, and frequently — it seems a foregone ...