A dead galaxy shouldn't produce bursts of radio light. Yet this 11 billion-year-old one did — throwing scientists for a loop.
"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...
A team of astrophysicists has gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the “void” that lurks in the middle of our ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...
The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will take stock of water’s cosmic origins by scanning the galaxy for hidden reservoirs.
China's Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite has captured an X-ray flash from a rare and elusive binary star system, ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recorded another amazing achievement. Scientists announced Tuesday that the telescope ...
At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* is never at rest. Using NASA’s James Webb ...
NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.
While the events observed around Sgr A* are dramatic, this black hole is not as active as some at the center of other ...