Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...
U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally ...
"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...
The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...
In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...
The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. A ...
Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...
The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...