Researchers discovered only relatively recently that black hole jets emit X-rays, and how the jets accelerate particles to this high-energy...
Exotic cosmic objects known as ultra-luminous X-ray sources produce about 10 million times more energy than the sun. They’re so...
If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven for thinking they are star factories, churning...
The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87—sometimes referred to as the “fuzzy, orange donut”—has...
Scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) have...
NASA this week shared an audio clip on social media that allows you to “hear” a black hole. No surprise,...
A “beautiful effect” predicted by quantum electrodynamics (QED) can explain the puzzling first observations of polarized X-rays emitted by a...
In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio...
A theoretical breakthrough in understanding quantum chaos could open new paths into researching quantum information and quantum computing, many-body physics,...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK are expanding their HPC systems with servers from Dell and resources...
Stars living closest to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way have no stellar companions, a...
Astronomers have made a rare discovery in the early universe involving two actively feeding supermassive black holes—or quasars—just 10,000 light-years...