Scientists have discovered that post-starburst galaxies condense their gas rather than expelling it, begging the question: What’s actually keeping them...
When magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, they create explosions that can release massive amounts of energy. On the...
For “Star Wars” fans, the streaking stars seen from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon as it jumps to hyperspace...
Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center...
In some of the most crowded parts of the universe, black holes may be tearing apart thousands of stars and...
Ever since they were discovered in 2018, fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) have utterly surprised and completely confounded both observational...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of...
The spiral galaxy M91 fills the frame of this Wide Field Camera 3 observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....
An international effort led by astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark...
Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves. Astronomers have been...
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most...
Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. New research is examining the...
