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 ...
Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...
Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...
Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...
It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...
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." ...
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...
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 ...
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...