Western Sydney University researchers, together with an international team of experts, have discovered a mysterious circular ring near our neighboring galaxy that could be the…
The device hopes to answer the ultimate existential questions. The final piece of an all-new detector has completed the first leg of its journey toward…
Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically credible if you use the word multiverse. The…
When stars like our Sun run out of fuel, they contract to form white dwarfs. Such dead stars can sometimes flare back to life in…
Study including University of Chicago researchers analyzes aftermath of 2014 supernova. An international group of astronomers has uncovered new clues about a mysterious stellar explosion…
Team reveals first image of the black hole at our galaxy’s heart. An international team of more than 300 scientists from 80 institutions has created…
White dwarfs were once normal stars similar to the Sun but then collapsed after exhausting all their fuel. Historically, these interstellar remnants have been difficult…
Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the first image of…
Today (May 12, 2022), at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the…
Update: Stunning Reveal: First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy Today (May 12, 2022) at 9:00 a.m. EDT…
A team of researchers from Purdue University and other institutions has discovered a supermassive black hole binary system, one of only two known such systems….
An international team of astronomers has discovered a unique object in the distant, early Universe that is a crucial link between star-forming galaxies and the…
In a Pair of Merging Supermassive Black Holes, a New Method for Measuring the Void Scientists have discovered a way of sizing up the ‘shadows’…
Late in 2018, the gravitational wave observatory, LIGO, announced that they had detected the most distant and massive source of ripples of spacetime ever monitored:…
Lasers support certain structures of light known as “eigenmodes.” An international collaboration of experts in gravitational waves, metasurfaces, and photonics has pioneered a new method…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now experiencing all seasons – from hot to cold – as it undergoes the thermal stability test. Meanwhile, activities…
What Is an Elliptical Galaxy? Elliptical galaxies have an even, ellipsoidal shape. They typically contain a much greater proportion of older stars than spiral galaxies…
This visualization shows 22 X-ray binaries in our Milky Way galaxy and its nearest neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, that host confirmed stellar-mass black holes….
