Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that ...
Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...
U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally ...
Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...
Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...
The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...
The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...
The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...