After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and their collaborators...
Accounts of supernovae—exploding stars—go back thousands of years, and while we know today these events create the building blocks of...
For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the...
A researcher at Colorado State University has developed a potential approach for identifying and understanding dark matter using the soon-to-be-built...
New analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas
At the heart of a far-off galaxy, a supermassive black hole appears to have had a case of the hiccups....
An international team led by Dr. Yuan Feng from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated...
A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration—which includes scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &...
Entanglement is what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” It is a key part of what distinguishes quantum mechanics...
How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the...
Stars like the Sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to...
A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, has revealed that these...
Everyone loves a two-for-one deal—even physicists looking to tackle unanswered questions about the cosmos. Now, scientists at the Department of...