Astronomers are finally catching a star in the act of dying, not as a static before-and-after snapshot but as a live, ...

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Astronomers detect a massive metal-rich cloud orbiting an unseen companion of star J0705+0612. Observations reveal its size, composition, and possible origin from a planetary collision.

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

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For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

Astronomers have found a massive cloud of metallic winds orbiting a mystery object in space. The cloud was found when ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

Astronomers have observed a Sun-like star dim dramatically for nearly nine months after being obscured by a vast cloud of gas and dust. A huge cloud filled with vaporized metals has been spotted ...