A RIKEN physicist and two colleagues have found that a wormhole—a bridge connecting distant regions of the Universe—helps to shed...
In 2020, the X-ray telescope eRosita took images of two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of...
Astronomers may have detected a “sonic boom” from a powerful blast known as a kilonova. This event was seen in...
A black hole gets a large corona before it emits jets. This is revealed, among other things, by the heartbeat...
Louisiana State University physicists have leveraged quantum information theory techniques to reveal a mechanism for amplifying, or “stimulating,” the production...
More than 30 years ago the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many almost invisible yet enormously luminous...
In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just...
Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first time...
For almost 10 years, NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) X-ray space observatory has been studying some of the highest-energy...
In a new study, Stanford researchers demonstrate how to manipulate atoms so they interact with an unprecedented degree of control....
For the first time, Northwestern University-led astronomers may have detected an afterglow from a kilonova. A kilonova occurs when two...
Researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary...
