Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched, it’s been revealing more about the universe than even most ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass was observed changing its properties with a major X-ray outburst. Between 2022 and 2024, astronomers ...