Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have completed an unprecedented “dissection” of twin galaxies…
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Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that applies the laws of physics and mathematics to understand the nature, behavior, and origins of celestial objects and the universe itself. It investigates the physical processes governing stars, planets, galaxies, black holes, dark matter, and dark energy—seeking to explain how cosmic structures form, evolve, and interact. Through observations across the electromagnetic spectrum and data from powerful telescopes and space observatories, astrophysics explores phenomena such as stellar evolution, cosmic radiation, gravitational waves, and the expansion of the universe. This field lies at the heart of modern space science, connecting fundamental physics with the mysteries of the cosmos.
Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury…
Can we tell black holes apart? Astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt answer this question by…
University of Miami astrophysicist Nico Cappelluti studies the sky. An assistant professor in the Physics…
A “core-collapse” supernova occurs when the iron core of a massive star collapses under the…
New result draws on 30 years of research and development and begins the definitive search…
Planets orbiting “short-period” binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected…
The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers to suppress…
Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe’s earliest light to map…
Black holes in dense stellar clusters could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything…
Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations…
Astrophysicists from the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh have created a new…
A Columbia University-led team of astrophysicists has discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius…
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time precisely measured the distance…
An international team of researchers has imaged newly forming jets of plasma from a massive…
In the first fractions of a second after the birth of our universe, not only…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found the most distant star ever discovered.…
The slow fade of radioactive elements following a supernova allows astrophysicists to study them at…