In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God...
If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven for thinking they are star factories, churning...
Astrophysicists say they have found an answer to why spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are largely missing from...
A ground-breaking new discovery by University of Leeds scientists could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and...
The latest image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in...
The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Almost everything, it...
Last year the brightest flash of light ever seen in the night sky disturbed Earth’s upper atmosphere in a way...
After a distant star’s explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over...
OJ 287 is recognized as a binary black hole system with a slowly spiraling orbit caused by loss of energy...
A new scientific technique could significantly improve the reference frames that millions of people rely upon each day when using...
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has published new results that describe for the first time how light from the...
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at...
