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 ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

A novel small modular reactor design will use its waste heat to desalinate water produced in Texan oil and gas wells.

What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

A historic nuclear reactor in Washington State was a critical part of the Manhattan Project, a site where plutonium was ...

An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a region at the center of a galaxy where a supermassive black hole is actively consuming surrounding material. As this matter spirals toward the black hole, it ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago, the DARPA-NASA management team has encountered the challenges inherent in sending a nuclear reactor into space for the first time in ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth. This cosmic giant, weighing as much as 700 million suns, is located in a galaxy from the early ...