Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...
Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...
That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...
In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal for Astronomy to a University of Oxford professor.
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Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...