Through the clever use of two types of telescopes, a team of researchers has produced stunning images of clusters of...
In the early-morning hours of today, 14 October 2022, astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile operated by NSF’s...
With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole spewing a fiery jet...
In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a black hole in...
Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth...
Researchers at Cardiff University have identified a peculiar twisting motion in the orbits of two colliding black holes, an exotic...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made a unique measurement that indicates a jet, plowing through space at speeds...
Research led by Oxford University is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules in the nuclear region...
Galaxies, including our Milky Way, host supermassive black holes in their centers, and their masses are millions to billions of...
The first map of the “galactic underworld”—a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that have since collapsed into...
When self-propelling objects interact with each other, interesting phenomena can occur. Birds align with each other when they flock together....
The very first stars likely formed when the universe was only 100 million years old, less than one percent its...
