Black holes are big, in fact the smallest of them are around 100,000 times the mass of our solar system’s central star. But ...
“Scary Barbie” (also known as AT2021lwx) is the informal name given by scientists to a phenomenon that is referred to as a ...
At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...
The research, titled “Unveiling a 36 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole at the Centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe Gravitational Lens", ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of black holes, revealing their energy and interactions with ...
Discovery triples known active black holes in dwarf galaxies, doubles intermediate black hole candidates, and challenges ...
In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum ...
In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about five-and-a-half ...