This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers ...
A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a supermassive black hole.
The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...
The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...
Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...
"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...
Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...
Astronomers have created the most detailed low-frequency map of the Milky Way, revealing otherwise hidden stars and ...
One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...
An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...
Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...
Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...