Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of...
Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens...
An international study led by astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves...
Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing...
Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair...
When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted...
Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early...
How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or...
Black holes continue to captivate scientists: they are purely gravitational objects, remarkably simple, yet capable of hiding mysteries that challenge...
The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and...
Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples, driven by the collapse of the iron core of a massive star...
