Scientists discover low-mass microquasars can accelerate cosmic rays, reshaping theories on high-energy particle origins.
Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin U.S. Spacewalk 92 early Jan. 30. Suni Williams and ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has detected a colossal coronal hole on the Sun’s surface, stretching an estimated 500,000 miles across—a size equivalent to 62 Earths lined up side by side.
"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into 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 ...
Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...