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As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...
A Yale University-led team of scientists say they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery: the possible birth of a supermassive ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...
Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...
“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...
Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...
Supermassive black hole found only half a billion years after Big Bang There just isn't time for something that big to grow from a supernova remnant. John Timmer – Nov 6, 2023 5:45 ...
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...