An international team of astronomers, including several from the Netherlands, has mapped a piece of the cosmic web without using...
It’s amazing what can be lurking out there in space, hidden by the limitations of our eyes, our technology, and...
In a recent study, an international team of astronomers presents the discovery of PSO J172.3556+18.7734—a highly accreting radio-loud quasar at...
We tend to think of supermassive black holes as relatively stationary things – sitting there bang in the middle of...
Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black holes can wander through space—but catching them in the act has proven difficult....
More and more, it seems that the existence and persistence of life on Earth is the result of sheer luck....
With the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered and studied in detail...
In September 2020, the LIGO/Virgo collaboration, a large team of scientists working at different universities worldwide, announced that they had...
On 21 May 2019, from a distance of 7 billion light-years away, our gravitational wave detectors were rocked by the...
A team of international researchers went back to the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago to gain...
An international team of scientists led by the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and the University of Aveiro...
What remains of the star that exploded just outside our galaxy in 1987? Debris has obscured scientists’ view, but two...
