During the hot summer of 2020, confined to his Pasadena home during the COVID-19 pandemic, National Medal of Science-winning applied...
In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT—the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international...
Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and...
While researching a cluster of stars in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole SgrA* (Sagittarius A*) at the...
A strange ‘garden sprinkler-like’ jet coming from a neutron star has been pictured for the first time. The S-shaped structure...
Galaxy mergers play a crucial role in the cosmological evolution of galaxies. During galaxy merging, tidal torques can trigger the...
Most stars in our universe come in pairs. While our own sun is a loner, many stars like our sun...
Quasars are extremely luminous galactic cores where gas and dust falling into a central supermassive black hole emit enormous amounts...
Gravitational waves, ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein almost a century ago, were detected for the first time in 2015....
An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spanning two decades...
Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most...
Galaxies avoid an early death because they have a “heart and lungs” which effectively regulate their “breathing” and prevent them...