The first laboratory realization of the long-standing but never-before confirmed theory of the puzzling formation of planets, stars and supermassive...
Astronomers have spotted two ghostly Goliaths en route to a cataclysmic meeting. The newfound pair of supermassive black holes are...
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)—an international observatory co-operated by the...
Neutron stars and black holes may be stellar corpses, but they are among the most active celestial objects. They produce...
New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of...
A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has shown that large gamma-ray-emitting bubbles around the center of the Milky Way were...
Webb’s picture of the month for December is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90,000 light-years...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A bright flash of gamma rays...
For decades, physicists have been hunting for a quantum-gravity model that would unify quantum physics, the laws that govern the...
Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole feeding behaviors....
Shock waves occur in air when a plane travels faster than the speed of sound and also occur in plasma...
As different as they may seem, black holes and Las Vegas have one thing in common: What happens there stays...
