Astronomers Detect a Record-Breaking “Cosmic Laser” From 8 Billion Light-Years Away
Illustration of the distant galaxy 8 billion light-years away (red), magnified by an unrelated foreground disk galaxy, resulting…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: When dust gets in your skies | Astronomy
Today: Every star rotates. Our Sun takes a little less than one Earth month to rotate once on…
The Milky Way may have merged with another galaxy shortly after the Big Bang
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing two galaxies. Since its formation, the Milky Way has merged…
Space mystery leads scientists to discovery of ‘black hole stars’
Astronomers identify new type of ‘black hole star’ in universe while hunting space mystery A black hole star…
Astronomers Detect a Cosmic Source Firing Changing Gamma Rays
Astronomers have long suspected that some of the universe’s most powerful particle accelerators lurk in binary star systems.…
A cosmic breadcrumb trail leads astronomers to a discovery in another galaxy
A cosmic breadcrumb trail leads astronomers to a discovery in another galaxy A faint ribbon of stars in…
Three supermassive black holes have been discovered in the same galaxy
If black holes fascinate astronomers, it is mainly because of their power, but also because of the many…
Water and Dust Found Surviving near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found that IRS 3 — a bloated giant…
Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories
Astronomers from New Mexico State University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College propose…
Astronomers Find Black Hole Star in Early Universe
Roughly 660 million years after the Big Bang, a strange bright red spot has been hiding in plain…
Faint Flash From Dying Star Forces Astronomers to Rethink How Stars Explode
This image shows the field around the progenitor to supernova SN 2026gzf, detected by the Einstein Probe on…
Astronomers have observed a wandering black hole shredding a star
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a star and a galaxy. Astronomers have recently detected a black…