Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of...
Black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material that they put an end to the life of...
It seems that Earth has been misplaced. According to a new map of the Milky Way galaxy, the Solar System’s...
In July of 2015, NASA’s New Horizons probe made history when it became the first mission ever to conduct a close flyby of...
Black holes are notable for many things, especially their simplicity. They’re just … holes. That are ‘black.’ This simplicity allows...
For galaxies, as for people, living in a crowd is different from living alone. Recently, astronomers used the National Science...
Using NASA’s Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have discovered three new ultraviolet-bright radio-quiet quasars at high redshift and measured their basic X-ray...
Solving the equations of general relativity for colliding black holes is no simple matter. Physicists began using supercomputers to obtain...
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of the blazar PKS 1749+096. Results of this...
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than...
An international research collaboration including Northwestern University astronomers has produced the most detailed family portrait of black holes to date,...
A little over five years ago, humanity was yet to detect gravitational waves. Now, observations are pouring in at an...
