Black holes embody the ultimate abyss. They are the most powerful sources of gravity in the universe, capable of dramatically...
The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object from...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter...
Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our...
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a...
The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time,...
In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map...
Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as previously assumed, but...
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years...
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from...
