Black holes—the cosmic behemoths known for powering some of the brightest radio wave sources in the universe—were the focal point...
Astronomers have observed, for the first time in three dimensions, that gas from spiral galaxies is blown upward and downward...
As far as the eye can see, galaxies fill the images of the deep universe. What processes determined their shapes,...
A radical theory that consistently unifies gravity and quantum mechanics while preserving Einstein’s classical concept of spacetime has been announced...
A star near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy originated outside the galaxy according...
An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when they eat has been discovered by an international...
A cornerstone but surprising prediction arising from Einstein’s theory of general relativity is the existence of black holes, which astronomers...
Three astronomers from the Netherlands have proven that gas that was previously heated near a supermassive black hole flowed to...
An international team of researchers including Prof. Badri Krishnan at Radboud University has verified an important property of black holes...
Cutting-edge computer simulations combined with theoretical calculations are helping astronomers better understand the origin of some of the universe’s most...
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in conjunction with the international Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, announce the discovery of...
In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God...
