What is dark matter? Even for astrophysicists, it’s a question that remains unanswered. These invisible particles make up most of...
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...
