The Milky Way is 13 billion years old. Some of our galaxy’s oldest stars were born near the beginning of...
Gravitational wave astronomy has just given us another amazing gift: the first observational confirmation of one of Stephen Hawking‘s predictions...
Vast filaments of intergalactic gas are the highways along which galaxies are hurtling towards a certain collision. In new, extremely...
For the first time, scientists have unambiguously confirmed the collision of a black hole and a neutron star: The fateful...
Quasars are very bright, distant and active supermassive black holes that are millions to billions of times the mass of...
As we gain greater ability to peer deeper and deeper into the Universe, we’ve been finding something very surprising: Supermassive...
The Universe is a large place, and there are a lot of large things in it. Not just galaxies, but...
In the far reaches of the Universe, a supermassive black hole is throwing a tantrum. It’s blowing a tremendous wind...
Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of...
It’s official: Betelgeuse sneezed and caught a cold. The cause of the star’s mysterious drop in brightness was caused by...
At the center of our Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole (SMBH) called Sagittarius A* (SgrA*). Supermassive black holes...
Scientists at the University of Oxford have discovered that classical nova explosions are accompanied by the ejection of jets of...
