NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured one of the first medium-deep wide-field images of the cosmos, featuring a region...
Clues to a black hole’s origins can be found in the way it spins. This is especially true for binaries,...
The NSF’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has revealed new information about mysterious radio bubbles surrounding a supermassive black hole. In...
The mysteries of the cosmos continue to amaze astronomers, and with each new observation comes a chance to deepen—or upend—our...
For nearly two decades, astrophysicists have believed that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) resulted solely from the collapse of massive stars....
An international team led by the Heidelberg MPl for Nuclear Physics has solved a decades-long problem in astrophysics with a...
New research, based on two decades’ worth of data, shows that in the ten years after its onset in 2000,...
Since 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have detected about 85 pairs of black holes crashing into each other. We now know...
New Chinese research suggests that optical variability in emission-line galaxies (ELGs) is likely caused by star-formation activity rather than the...
Earlier this year, astronomers were keeping tabs on data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, an all-sky survey based at the...
Earlier this year, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) was alerted after an unusual source of visible...
Leveraging the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists ran 100 simulations exploring jets—narrow beams...
