So extreme is the magnetic and gravitational environment around a black hole that we should see light bend around it...
On Aug. 26, 2020, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a pulse of high-energy radiation that had been racing toward...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
In April 1998, light from the explosive death of a massive star 120 million light-years away irradiated Earth. This was...
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before...
Two years ago, the Event Horizon Telescope gave us the first breathtaking image of the supermassive black hole at the...
A new set of equations can precisely describe the reflections of the Universe that appear in the warped light around...
A binary star just 1,500 light-years away is spiraling towards a spectacular doom. HD265435 consists of a type of dead...
It’s hard to miss a flashlight beam pointed straight at you. But that beam viewed from the side appears significantly...
A research team co-led by UCL has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of...
When gravitational waves were first detected in 2015 by the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), they sent a ripple...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of...
