Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...
Supermassive black holes, 1,000 times larger than previously thought, have been discovered in LRD-type galaxies. This ...
Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...
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 ...
NASA discovered black holes fueling their own growth by cooling gas, creating a cycle of jets, filaments, and feeding, ...
Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.
In the Netflix series "La Palma," a Norwegian family goes on holiday to the Canary Islands when a young researcher discovers alarming signs of an imminent volcanic eruption. Cumbre Vieja is an active ...
The eruption began in December 2024 in a crater at the summit of the Kilauea volcano and has been pausing periodically.
Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed ...
A new study has compiled and analyzed the largest-ever sample of LRDs, and it noted several striking properties, not least of which is that most of these objects contain supermassive black holes.