The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of...
Astronomers have a new way of detecting active black holes in the Universe and measuring how much matter they are...
How did supermassive black holes form? What is dark matter? In an alternative model for how the universe came to...
Scientists have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the center of a galaxy cluster using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory....
Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so close that one engulfs the other—with far-reaching...
Einstein was no stranger to mathematical challenges. He struggled to define energy in a way that acknowledged both the law...
In June of 2018, telescopes around the world picked up a brilliant blue flash from the spiral arm of a...
Recently, a research team at Osaka University has successfully demonstrated the generation of megatesla (MT)-order magnetic fields via three-dimensional particle...
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have shown that a jet of material...
One of the major issues in general relativity that separates it from other descriptions of the universe, like quantum physics,...
Very distant, active supermassive black holes are the brightest beacons in the universe. Known as quasars, these behemoths are surrounded...
Black holes are one of the greatest mysteries of the universe—for example, a black hole with the mass of our...
