To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...

The universe’s light-starved early epochs, as well as the first stars and galaxies, lie beyond the reach of conventional ...

A long-standing mystery about a strange cluster of stars in our galaxy may have finally been solved by scientists. The stars ...

Scientists believe that at the heart of all large galaxies lurk supermassive black holes, cosmic titans with masses equivalent to that of millions or even billions of suns. Yet some black holes exceed ...

Stars in binaries with black holes usually suffer gruesome fates, but two systems discovered by Gaia hint at a survival ...

However, in the entire history of astronomy, we have found just a bare ... so fast that it heats up and starts to glow, and the stars a black hole eats are glowing to begin with.

A bird that mimicked a black hole. The astronomer who discovered microwave ovens. A telescope that can fly. The science of ...

By searching sparsely populated regions of the galaxy, astronomers have for the first time found the source of a kind of signal that has puzzled them for years.

"Even years after the Arecibo Observatory's collapse, its data continues to unlock critical information that can advance our ...

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black ...

The spiral arms of Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, have been imaged by the Dark Energy Camera in ...