To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...
The cosmic couple Cygnus X-3 intrigues researchers. Located 32,000 light-years away, this system, composed of a compact ...
NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential ...
The star, which is one of the most massive in the Milky Way, is also monstrous enough to leave behind a black hole when it dies. Eta Carinae first announced itself when it erupted with a strange ...
An international scientific team, led by a researcher from the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) and the ...
A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...
One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery.
Stars in binaries with black holes usually suffer gruesome fates, but two systems discovered by Gaia hint at a survival ...
What's going on in galaxy Centaurus A? NASA thought they were looking at a normal jet of particles coming out of a black hole ...