NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For months, space scientists scratched their heads and crunched the data. Then on ...
New images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory give galaxy clusters a bold new splash of color, highlighting the beauty of these cosmic giants. Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the ...
A NASA animation has sized the biggest black holes known to scientists, including one that has the mass of 66 billion Suns.
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary cosmic outburst this July which likely heralds a new kind of stellar ...
Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.
Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.