Large amounts of gas are sometimes funneled to a galaxy’s nuclear regions, with profound consequences. The gas triggers starburst activity...
A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday...
If you’re struggling to handle the long line of tabs open in your browser right now, you’re not alone. A...
In a galaxy cluster called Abell 3376, some 600 million light-years from Earth, one galaxy has an active supermassive black...
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Scientists are certain that dark matter exists. Yet, after more than 50 years of searching, they still have no direct...
NASA has a long tradition of unexpected discoveries, and the space program’s TESS mission is no different. SMU astrophysicist and...
In a map of the gamma-ray sky – the highest energy electromagnetic radiation streaming through our Universe – 14 objects...
The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40...
Astronomers think they have discovered a tiny black hole, with a mass so small it places it in an exclusive...
Although it’s extremely difficult to directly image the shadow of and the space around a black hole, that’s not the...
Telescopes from across the globe have teamed up to take unprecedented images of supermassive black hole M87* as it blasts matter...
