How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter plays an essential role. However, as...
Clues to a black hole’s origins can be found in the way it spins. This is especially true for binaries,...
An international team of astronomers has used data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to report the discovery of the...
For decades, astronomers and physicists have been trying to solve one of the deepest mysteries about the cosmos: An estimated...
The NSF’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has revealed new information about mysterious radio bubbles surrounding a supermassive black hole. In...
New research sheds light on how the “hell planet” got so devilishly hot and how other worlds might become too...
Imagine walking into a room at night, turning out all the lights and closing the shades. Yet an eerie glow...
Around 2,500 years ago, a star ejected most of its gas, forming the beautiful Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132, chosen...
The mysteries of the cosmos continue to amaze astronomers, and with each new observation comes a chance to deepen—or upend—our...
For nearly two decades, astrophysicists have believed that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) resulted solely from the collapse of massive stars....
An international team led by the Heidelberg MPl for Nuclear Physics has solved a decades-long problem in astrophysics with a...
The standard view of gamma-ray bursts as a signature for different types of dying stars might need a rewrite. Recent...
