By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...
HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...
Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...
According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...
NASA's achievements, from the iconic Apollo missions to the James Webb Telescope, have redefined space exploration and ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.
This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.