Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
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Scientists propose searching for primordial black holes in ancient rocks and hollow planets, offering new way to solve dark ...
A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...
Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...