The universe is teeming with galaxies, each brimming with billions of stars. Though all galaxies shine brightly, many are cloaked...
A research group led by Stefanie Komossa (MPIfR Bonn, Germany) presents new results on the galaxy OJ 287, based on...
Astronomers from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona have discovered a rapidly growing black hole in one...
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence for giant black holes in dwarf galaxies on a collision course. This result from...
When two black holes collide into each other to form a new bigger black hole, they violently roil spacetime around...
Two decades of monitoring from W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaiʻi reveals a peculiar cloud dubbed X7...
A peculiar cloud of gas, nicknamed the Tadpole due to its shape, appears to be revolving around a space devoid...
When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that is, contrary to what was believed until recently, shaped like a...
Scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) have...
Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy—the ‘missing’ 70%...
Astronomers have barely scratched the surface of mapping the nearly endless stars and galaxies of the heavens. Using supercomputers, researchers...
Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify the precise location of a powerful energy source hidden by cosmic...
