The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87—sometimes referred to as the “fuzzy, orange donut”—has...
On Feb. 22, 1971, a sounding rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with specialized sensors aimed at the Crab...
An accretion disk is a colossal whirlpool of gas and dust that gathers around a black hole or a neutron...
To gaze at the stars is human. To be able to see them in three-dimensional detail is very nearly divine....
Astronomers have spotted a candidate supermassive black hole running away from its home galaxy, hurtling through space at a velocity...
With data from the Kepler (NASA), Gaia (ESA) and SOHO (NASA/ESA) satellites, a team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e...
Astronomers have made a rare discovery in the early universe involving two actively feeding supermassive black holes—or quasars—just 10,000 light-years...
An international team of astrophysicists and cosmologists at various institutes including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the four most distant galaxies ever observed, one of which formed just 320...
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have discovered not only the closest but also the second closest black hole...
Asteroids sharing their orbits with the planet Neptune have been observed to exist in a broad spectrum of red color,...
We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from...
