Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way....
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes,...
A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects...
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never...
Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely...
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across...
Astronomers observe X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole that accelerate mysteriously
One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise...
New observations from the National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NSF NRAO) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (NSF...
A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a groundbreaking quantum simulation...
The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new...
Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron stars...
Dr. Feng Haicheng from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with his collaborators, has made progress...