When Galaxies Collide: How Galactic Collisions Can Starve Massive Black Holes
It was previously thought that collisions between galaxies would necessarily add to the activity of the massive black holes at their centers. However, researchers have…
It was previously thought that collisions between galaxies would necessarily add to the activity of the massive black holes at their centers. However, researchers have…
Using a combination of telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed a system consisting of six…
The lives of planetary nebulae are often chaotic, from the death of their parent star to the scattering of its contents far out into space….
A Roman Ultra Deep Field would collect millions of galaxies, including some of the rarest and most distant In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope stared…
Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from…
Apart from black holes, magnetars may be the most extreme stars in the universe. With a diameter less than the length of Manhattan, they pack…
The Pleiades star cluster, a brilliant collection of several hundred stars visible in the winter sky near the constellation of Orion, has been admired by…
A theory as to why the Sun’s outer atmosphere differs in its chemical make-up from its inner layers has been confirmed by direct observation for…
This marks the second time astronomers have ever observed a cloud-free exoplanet. Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the…
The spacecraft, which has been gathering data on the gas giant since July 2016, will become an explorer of the full Jovian system – Jupiter…
Scientists from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most…
An international team of researchers from the University of Oxford, LMU Munich, ETH Zurich, BGI Bayreuth, and the University of Zurich discovered that a two-step…
Deep-sky survey seeks to answer some of astronomy’s most pressing questions. When our universe was very young, it was a dark place filled with a…
The merger of two black holes in a binary system emits energy that can be detected on Earth by gravitational-wave observatories. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration…
Giant Map of the Sky Sets Stage for Ambitious DESI Survey Astronomers using images from Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have…
Combining signals from multiple observations of neutron stars has allowed researchers to better understand the properties of ultra-dense matter and constrain the Hubble constant, which…
Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar…
Dust may seem insignificant, but it plays a huge role in the universe, from the formation of stars and planets to facilitating the complex chemistry…