In July of 2015, NASA’s New Horizons probe made history when it became the first mission ever to conduct a close flyby of...
Black holes are notable for many things, especially their simplicity. They’re just … holes. That are ‘black.’ This simplicity allows...
For galaxies, as for people, living in a crowd is different from living alone. Recently, astronomers used the National Science...
Using NASA’s Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have discovered three new ultraviolet-bright radio-quiet quasars at high redshift and measured their basic X-ray...
Solving the equations of general relativity for colliding black holes is no simple matter. Physicists began using supercomputers to obtain...
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of the blazar PKS 1749+096. Results of this...
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than...
An international research collaboration including Northwestern University astronomers has produced the most detailed family portrait of black holes to date,...
A little over five years ago, humanity was yet to detect gravitational waves. Now, observations are pouring in at an...
Ancient Galaxies A team of European astronomers say they’ve found an extremely-rare class of black hole — and it threatens...
A little dead star that dazzled us earlier this year is not done with its shenanigans. Magnetar SGR 1935+2154, which...
An object identified earlier this year as the closest black hole we’ve ever discovered may have just been demoted. After...