A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...
The research also suggests that these massive stars transformed directly into black holes at the end of their lives without ...
Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...
Two composite images show side-by-side observations of the Perseus Cluster from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry ...
An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disk wobbles. In this context, the wobble refers to the orbit of material surrounding the ...
Galway-based space-tech companies ATG Innovation and ÉireComposites have been tapped to design and build satellite parts for the largest space-based observatory built and the first-ever dedicated to ...
Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...
A new international study suggests that the structure of matter surrounding these black holes has changed over billions of ...
A gamma-ray burst of unprecedented duration and behavior, detected last July, is keeping the international astrophysics ...