What was previously identified as a gas and dust cloud at the center of our galaxy actually consists of three...
NASA’s newest X-ray observatory rocketed into orbit Thursday to shed light on exploded stars, black holes and other violent high-energy...
Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges...
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have uncovered a process in the swirling...
It is almost always assumed in cosmological calculations that there is a even distribution of matter in the universe. This...
A multi-institutional team of astrophysicists headquartered at Boston University, led by BU astrophysicist Merav Opher, has made a breakthrough discovery...
Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart...
The hunt for gravitational waves, ripples in space and time caused by major cosmic cataclysms, could help solve one of...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes...
Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations....
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright pulses of emission at radio wavelengths (seen mostly at wavelengths of tens of centimeters)...
How are chemical elements produced in our Universe? Where do heavy elements like gold and uranium come from? Using computer...
