Black holes are bizarre things, even by the standards of astronomers. Their mass is so great, it bends space around...
Astronomers have captured a spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s...
Matter outflows in the form of jets are observed in astronomical systems at fast, medium and slow speeds. The fastest...
Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA’s Fermi...
An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “cosmic dawn”—the...
Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the...
Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds which...
Powered by supermassive black holes swallowing matter in the centers of galaxies, active galactic nuclei are the most powerful compact...
Hundreds of black holes previously hidden, or buried, have been found using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result helps give...
In the eROSITA all-sky survey, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) have found an interesting repeating...
Hundreds of millions of light-years away in a distant galaxy, a star orbiting a supermassive black hole is being violently...
Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets...
