The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...
In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
About 13 billion light-years away there is a supermassive black hole actively sending out a spectacular beam of energy directly towards Earth. Interestingly, this isn't just any black hole; it's a ' ...
The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.