Astronomers revisited decades-old data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, discovering bright, clumped “knots” in an ...
Stars have a life and death-cycle. Those that are about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the ...
New research shows how one massive, hydrogen-depleted supergiant star in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) failed to detonate as a ...
(NASA) – This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...
There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...
Back in 2009 astronomers spotted the same trend in jet knots blasted by a monster black hole in the center of M87 galaxy, ...
A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...
A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.
Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...
This is not carelessness, but the possible discovery of a rare stellar event in the Andromeda galaxy. A red supergiant star ...