A mysterious trail of stars formed eight thousand million years ago and recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope has...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and...
A “beautiful effect” predicted by quantum electrodynamics (QED) can explain the puzzling first observations of polarized X-rays emitted by a...
With a single letter seemingly etched in the X-ray glow around it, a giant black hole at the center of...
Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have measured...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers have found, for the first time, the fingerprints left by the explosion of...
The famous first image of a black hole just got two times sharper. A research team used artificial intelligence to...
They are called UFOs, but aliens have nothing to do with them. They are the ultra-fast outflows: space winds that...
A new NASA animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big...
If they exist, intermediate-mass black holes likely devour wayward stars like a messy toddler—taking a few bites and then flinging...
Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster’s...
Once every 10,000 years or so, the center of a galaxy lights up as its supermassive black hole rips apart...
