Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...
"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...
"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has heard the song a star-quaking red giant sings to its partner black hole.
The team used two of the most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion operations per second.
In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...
How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...
A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...
On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...