A unique new instrument, coupled with a powerful telescope and a little help from nature, has given researchers the ability...
During the first billion years of the universe, winds blown by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies were...
At simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at a National Science Foundation-sponsored press conference at the U.S. National Press...
On May 12, 2022, astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team released an image of a black hole called Sagittarius...
Powerful enough to spot a golf ball on the moon, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a network of radio...
Three years ago, the first ever image of a black hole stunned the world. A black pit of nothingness enclosed...
Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes—immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which...
Nearby black holes and their stellar companions form an astrophysical rogues’ gallery in this new NASA visualization. Stars born with...
Something strange is afoot in the galaxy known as 1ES 1927+654: In late 2017, and for reasons that scientists couldn’t...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a witness at the scene of a star’s explosive death: a companion star previously...
Since 2003, the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster has been associated with sound. This is...
The flashing of a nearby star has drawn MIT astronomers to a new and mysterious system 3,000 light years from...
