The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...
When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...
In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct ...
In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...
Astronomers have identified a mysterious dark object, weighing a million times the mass of the Sun, located outside our Solar System.
This black hole spins rapidly, and its rotation powers a stream of charged particles that shoots out at nearly the speed of ...
The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars.
Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...
Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.
The IceCube observatory detects possible sources of neutrinos in the galaxy NGC 1068, reinforcing the search for the origin ...
The Ozark Mountains cradle this town like they’re protecting something precious, which, if you ask anyone who’s been here, they absolutely are. You drive into downtown and immediately notice something ...