Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...
A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...
Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.
"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...