Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it’s so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something called 21cm radiation. Hydrogen, the most abundant ...
Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...
A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...
Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...
Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...
From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...
"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...
A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.
A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...
The supermassive black hole in the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, Sagittarius A*, constantly emits flares like fireworks.
A supermassive black hole, estimated to be 600,000 times larger than the Sun, is making its way toward the Milky Way, according to a research team from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for ...
Space scientists say the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having "a party." A team of astrophysicists has gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the “void ...