The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a new kind of galactic portrait, revealing a luminous thread of gas and newborn ...

Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 ...

Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

Another long-standing mystery in particle physics has finally been solved. An international research team of the ALICE ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

South African researchers have discovered the most distant ultra-steep-spectrum radio halo ever observed. According to a statement issued by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), a ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

Learn how new high-resolution images of two nova eruptions offer fresh insight into how these stellar explosions release ...

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